What if the drizzle

was a storm instead?

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What if the sun

failed to rise up ahead?

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What if my plane

never left the tarmac?

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What if I never left

where you were at?

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What if home

never changed its meaning?

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What if my heart

didn’t demand my leaving?

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“What if” is such

a fruitless heartache.

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What if I left my “what if”s

for the clouds to take?

In the Clouds, USA
April, 2015