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If Only...

May 8, 2019
By Anonymous

What if I had told you I was dying,

Would you have stayed by my side until my heart stopped?


What if I had told you I was destined for Hell,

Would you have marched through the fire holding my hand?


What if I had told you I wasn’t good enough,

Would you have spent hours convincing me that I was?


What if I had told you I was going to cause you pain,

Would you have taken the torture without a fight, but a smile?


What if I had told you I was about to break your heart,

Would you have let it be shattered into a million little pieces?


What if I had told you I had to leave and never return,

Would you have traveled to Earth's end to find and bring me back?


What if I had told you I didn't know what I was doing,

Would you have told me you didn't either, and that was okay?


What if I had told you I had no future at all,

Would you have given me your entire past and present?


What if I had told that I loved you,

Would you have said it back to me twice as much?

                                              -The last words of a dead girl


Yes, I would have,

If only you had told me.

                        -The first whisper of a boy all alone


The author's comments:

  I wrote this piece after reading the book "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman. 


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