Posted: 10 June 2007 at 2:46pm | IP Logged

  I read this poem a long time ago and am unable to remember the author, I believe it goes something like this,... 

 "Maybe the best years of my life are gone but I would not want them back, not with the fire in me know"

Posted: 10 June 2007 at 11:10pm | IP Logged

That would be Samuel Beckett.

"Krapp's Last Tape"

"Here I end this reel. Box--(pause)--three, spool--(pause)--five. (Pause. Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back."

Sources:

http://www.msu.edu/~sullivan/BeckettKrapp.html

http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/motors/2007/0530/1180134127 012.html