If you could do it all again,
Would you still want to be my friend?
If the path was still in sight,
Would you try to make it right?

If you knew this from the start,
Would you dare to bare your heart?
If the start were up to you,
Would you want to see it through?

If you could feel the hurt,
Before I took the bite.
If you could see the end,
Would you still turn out the light?

If the time was never ours,
Then whose would it be?
If the choosing was still yours,
Would you still be choosing me?

If not You, Then Who?
If not Me, Where are we?

If you hear words before I talk,
Do they make you want to walk?
If the lines were yours to write,
Would they make you want to fight?

If you could mold me just like clay,
Would you be happier today?
If the facts were all in sight,
Would you feel that you were right?

If you had all you think you need,
Do you think that you’d be free?
If the voids were full of life,
Would it make up for the strife?

If you had another man,
Would it be easier to stand?
If the bonds were really strong,
Could both of us be wrong?

If my life is not for you,
Then I’m living it for who?
If you are not in this with me?
Who is it? Can you see?

If not You, Then Who?
If not Me, Who will it be?

If you could make things good,
Do you think you really would?
If the hand was not dealt short,
Would you try to make it work?

If you feel the cold inside,
What makes you run and hide?
If the feeling couldn’t last,
It was never ours to grasp.

If you saw another way,
Would we be crying here today?
If the hope has all gone out,
Then all that’s left is doubt.

If the power was yours to choose,
Would you still decide to lose?
If the kiss was ours to share,
It’s hard to see you care.
If the writing’s on the wall,
Who will catch my fall?
If the best was yet to come,
Then we’re never really done.
If the best was what we had,
Then the rest is only sad.

If the last words are all said,
We might as well be dead.
If you thought that it was love,
There’s nothing left above.

If not You, Then Who?
If not Me, Then let it be.

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2015 Kirt Van Buren