Regret 2 Poem by DM W

It looks like we managed to destroy each other.
O you couldn't remove yourself from your entrenched,
Parochial ways. And as for me I couldn't
Relinquish rabid, quirky eclecticism.
Yet you badly needed poetry & culture;
Whilst I needed a connection with the wild world.
Inevitably, we lost out to all the brutes
And philistines who populate this backward place:
Where there's not the slightest chance of evolution.
Now there's only silence and the passing of years.
You're bored out of your mind amidst the nouveau riche:
Where to possess a soul is most unappealing.
Whilst I'm treading water with jesters & fraudsters.
We've most certainly angered the gods & the saints.
We wasted precious moments, that won't come again.
It's only now I wish that we'd never parted.