there is no remedy To salvage shipwrecks

Easier cork the sea, 

Or boil red wine from cloth, 

Than rewrite history— 

There is no remedy 

To salvage shipwrecks drowned in wrath. 

 

            I spoke in anger to my friend, 

            And now I cannot make amend. 

 

Better the tongue be still, 

Than speak and then regret; 

Better the bitter pill 

Than wrath should drink its fill: 

Some hearts forgive—but few forget. 

 

            I spoke in anger to my friend, 

            And now I cannot make amend. 

 

[Felix Dennis {1947-2014} ’I spoke in anger…’, from Love, of a Kind]