Things I Haven't Done in So Long

If you knew

The rights I changed,

the damage I have done,

Would you still be willing,

To be the one?

So much, my dear,

Can never be changed:

The race wrongly lost,

Time stolen away,

Nothing to negate the cost.

If I told you,

Of the pain I caused,

The lie fallen from my lips,

Would your faith,

Still my failures eclipse?

Guilt and strife

Correct nothing;

This I know

 Yet, oh, so strong,

Is their undertow.

If I could

Show how different

I would be,

Would you stay

Long enough to see?