FOR YOU
If
you did not seize
that chance,
the instant between going and doing,
that millisecond of time that changed everything,
What if
someone stepped in the way,
in between and blocked your view,
or something changed your mind,
or in that tiniest window of opportunity,
what if you lost your nerve
or said no to that inner voice,
what if a driver was going to fast
and the tires screeched at that very second,
or it started to rain and you had to close the window,
or the phone rang, or
the ceiling collapsed,
the vase fell off the shelf,
the door fell off the hinges,
the take out order arrived,
the record ended,
or your shoelace came untied...
then you would not have kissed me and I would not have felt your lips
and all the things we felt and saw and dreamed in that instant
would not be born.
Karen Bruneau ©