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What If?

May 11, 2019
By caylaisrael24 BRONZE, Randolph, New Jersey
caylaisrael24 BRONZE, Randolph, New Jersey
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What if everything wasn’t meant to happen for a reason?


What if the things we’ve left behind were, in reality, the missing parts…

the things we didn’t think we needed…

but what we needed most of all


What if the past was the present?

lives filled with excitement… beaming for the future...

yet the future filled with nothing...

and everything in that moment made you regret even having that one singular thought for just a single second


What if the missing pieces were there… right in front of your eyes?

...so impossible to see under a microscope but easily visible by someone even 1,000 miles away


What if the stars were stripes?

identified with no shape or defined figure...

but with power and unity


What if there were no what if’s?

the questionable mysteries within each individual…no longer there...

every answer given yet no set-out adventure


For all the what if’s there comes and goes a guess

but that guess matches no single answer...

and that single answer in not one person…

Will ever be reachable… as the world holds no path

Yet as people continue to ponder, you might ask


“What if there is no single answer?”


The author's comments:

 This piece incorporates deep aspects of the questionable realities within society. There is not one single meaning to this poem, yet many interpretations can be drawn. As people try and discover a single answer, it is noticed to be impossible, and yet still unknown.


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