What Could Have Been

 What Could Have Been

By Talia Goodman

I poured my heart into your lap.

I spilled the contents from within.

And you, you washed the love away.

But is loving really such a sin?

Perhaps you were just terrified

By the thought of what could have been.

We could have held hands,

And we could have laughed.

Or sailed the sea in our makeshift raft.

If only it had been.

I was lost in the moment of your gaze.

Now my heart falls to ashes in the smoldering blaze.

Thinking of what should have been.

You could have made my head spin.

I could have made your heart grin.

Oh, if only it had been.

You say you're busy, just don't have the time.

But you're just making excuses.

And that doesn't rhyme, it doesn't rhyme.

How could it not have been?

Well, what you sees not what you get.

I wish you had known that.

And you have no idea what you lost.

But I do. And I miss the memories.

Of what could have been.

What could have been.