I hesitate to make a list
Of opportunities I have missed
Investments that were in my grip
I watch them through my finger’s slip
Prime properties I should have bought
Were lost because of over-thought
I thought of this – I thought of that
I could have sworn I smelled a rat
And while I thought things over twice
Another grabbed them at the price
It always seems I hesitate
Then make my mind up much too late
A very cautious person am I
And that is why I never buy
I chose to think and as I thought
They bought the house I should have bought!
The golden chances I had then
Are lost and will never ever come again
Today I cannot be enticed
For everything’s so overpriced
The deals of yesteryear are dead,
The market’s soft – and so’s my head!
At times a teardrop drowns my eye
I had the chance, but did not buy,
And now life’s saddest words I pen –
If only I’d decided then
Author Unknown