This is, in my opinion, as good as the original.
Regret
Holding belief close
to beating heart: how now to
begin this story?
Commencing belief,
honesty placed: strong passion
swallowed soul, grasped mind.
Our middle movement,
soaring, reflective: leading
onward, to coda.
Beginning, ending;
passion departed: transformed
bitter memory.
Regret devolves, love’s
beautiful broken sliver;
life’s once perfect whole.
