Really, What If
Really
What if
What if we’d have actually met
Even now
So many years after
Thinking of our improbable love
Even though logically
We both knew our love was finished,
Even though logically
We both knew our love had to be finished
I wonder what might have happened
If I’d have actually flown from my
West coast to your east coast
Thinking of our improvable love
If I’d have actually flown from my
West coast to your east coast
If we’d have actually met
Really
What if
For the first time
If you’d have actually seen me
Really
What if
For the first time
I had actually seen you
Would we have shaken hands
Would we have hugged
Would we have briefly hugged
With a lightly brushed kiss on the cheek?
Really
What if
We’d have actually met
Really
What if
For the first time together
We sat in a public place
We sat at a table sipping coffee or tea
What if
Actually looking at you
Actually looking at me
Actually together for the first time
Would your hand be held in mine
Would you have wanted your hand in mine?
Would I have wanted your hand in mine?
Actually?
What if
We’d have actually met
Would the sight of me to you
Would the sight of you to me
Would your mannerisms
Would my mannerisms
Would your smile
Would my smile
Would the tone of
And the sound of your voice
Would the tone of
And the sound of my voice
Would the silent message read within your eyes
Would the silent message read within my eyes
Would this meeting foster our love
Would this meeting bring realism to fantasy
What if
We’d have actually met
Would we both have seen what we had
Would we both have seen
That our love was not more than fantasy?
What if
Then
Would we have happily parted with a briefly hugged
Lightly brushed kiss on the cheek
Or…
Actually
What if we’d have actually met
Would our brief meeting…
Would the utter futility of our brief meeting…
Would the preponderance our truly found love
And our inevitable parting factually tear at our hearts
Factually tearing at our hearts bring us to tears?
What if we’d have actually met?
Even now
So many years after
Thinking of our improbable love
Even though logically
We both knew our love was finished
Even though logically
We both knew our love had to be finished.
What if
What if
We’d have actually met?
Actually!
Really!
What if?
©May 3,2014 Mark M Lichterman
hugs
kathy
We never ceased to wonder.
Sandie