WHAT IF?

If 'what is', were 'what might have been',
Would I be happy and serene?
What is this enigmatic thing
You ask-the thing which might have been?

That is a secret shared by two
About a love profound and true.
Had fate allowed it to proceed
Would it at last my soul have freed,

To soar up to the highest height
Exactly like a bird in flight?
Instead it dashed it to the ground
Suddenly and without a sound.

Destruction was its sole intent,
But I cry 'No!, I'll not relent,
You will not kill my love, you see,
For what might have been still could be!"