What if you hadn’t left me

 

 

What if you hadn’t left me

               What if you loved me still

 

Would I be better for it

               Or would living have crushed my will

 

Would I be smarter, stronger

               Or just weak and tired

 

Would I be more respected

               Or just as socially mired

 

Would my days be easy

               With long languid nights

 

Or would I still drag toiling

               With far too few delights

 

But what if you had stayed

               Though loved me never more

 

Would I be happy for it

               Or would ragged soul be sore

 

Would we still be one together

               Or separate two too close

 

Occupied in Love’s still dying

               Oblivious to anguished throes.

 

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