"What if instead of walking away,I walked towards her and told hernot to go. Held onto her armsand..."

“What if instead of walking away,

I walked towards her and told her

not to go. Held onto her arms

and told her that if she leaves now

I will forever be scarred

by the feeling of future absence.

What if instead of staying silent,

I spoke up and told her

that she will always be the only

one that I will ever really love

with every tired bone in my body.

What if instead of pushing

the thought of her return away

I embrace the moments

in which my hope is at its

strongest. What if instead of

telling her that I don’t miss her,

I tell her that I wish she

would have never gone away.

That she would have never

tore herself from my body,

becoming another piece of me

that’s lost in the chaos of it all.

What if instead of telling her

that I never once for a moment

thought she was the one

that I would wake up feeling

empty without, I tell her that she

is the one that I wake up to

every morning feeling empty without.”

- "What if instead," - Colleen Brown