IF.....

If it were easy,

I would have said it straight away,

If you could feel it,

You would have known it right away,

If it were possible,

I never would have given myself away,

If it hadn’t been blur,

I never would have wiped it away,

If it weren’t all about fate,

I never would have chased all hopes away,

If dreaming weren’t sinning,

I would have conjured wings and flown away,

If it were not for the love I felt for you,

I never would have hushed all apprehensions away.

Now when I see it all from a distance,

I find all ‘if’ and ‘if’ alone,

If, if hadn't been a much needed expression,

I would have given it away,

Wrapped in a casket so wondrous, so dear,

So full of feeling, so delicate,

So embellished with innocuous love,

So tenderly smoothed with care,

So earnestly rubbed with passion,

So carefully woven to suit fashion,

That to discern life from death,

Felicity from grief,

Satisfaction from desperation,

And all from nothing,

Would seem not impossible,

In this so unambiguous,

Yet so dramatically enigmatic canvas of life!