If regret comes to call
after I am gone send it
on its way and bar the door.
Don’t worry that perhaps you
should have been more.
You were what you were and
you are what you are. This is
what is real. This is what is true.
All I care about is that you were you.
Cinse Bonino
2025
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Cinse, a former professor with a background in the psychology of human learning, writes nonstop, and is addicted to capturing the human experience in words.
