If
If you saw me today -
not that "once upon a time"
17-year-old woman child
whose summer-fresh face you caressed -
would you still love me?
I like to believe it was love
that gazed back at me then
with those dark shining eyes.
If you saw me again, would your eyes still shine, and
would you still love me?
We took our separate paths.
Sadly, I know not where yours led
or if you still breathe the air of this earth.
If our paths were somehow to cross again,
would you still love me?
If somehow we met
and were free to be again
what we could have been then
had we not let it just slip away. . .
would you still love me?
for Caren Krutsinger's 'Any Poem You Want to Write 180 words or Less ' Poetry Contest
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