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My Bucket List

No time for regrets

By Colleen Millsteed Published 5 years ago • Updated 5 years ago • 1 min read
My Bucket List
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There comes a day for all of us

When our Soul will leave this plane,

Please ensure there are no items

On our Bucket list that still remain.

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So I’ll start my Bucket List today

With all the things I’d want fulfilled,

Before that fateful day does come

If dreams come true I’d be thrilled.

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I’d welcome becoming a Grandmother

Seeing both my boys settled and happy,

Ideally both to become fathers

And learn how to change a nappy.

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Another tick off my list

Seeing both boys settled in a career,

That’s both rewarding and challenging

Both tackling their future frontier.

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No need to add or remind me

To treasure every minute second,

With those I love around me

If their busy I’ll at least check in.

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I will give myself permission

To take the time to smell the roses,

At times life seems so busy

We don’t realise when our door closes.

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Lastly, written in large bold letters

“There will be no time for regrets,”

So I won’t put off those things today

That if I missed I would be upset!

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Colleen Millsteed

My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.

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    Written by Colleen Millsteed