The story of my life is the same <br />As anyone else's - <br />A person trying to survive one way <br />or another, <br />Trying to be kind, <br />But nobody is kind or mean, <br />Nobody gets out of life <br />Having to swim through the torture <br />To be a part of this world <br />I wanted to love, <br />To be loved <br />But we all know how that goes <br />And if I didn't waste so much time <br />Chasing a dream, <br />Looking for a simpler place <br />I might have done it<br /><br />Christopher James Kurtz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/could-have/