| We all must wonder, now and then,
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| If things had turned out — well — just plain different.
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| Chance path taken, page unturned or brief encounter, blossomed, splintered.
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| Might I have been the man of courage, brave upon life’s battlefield,
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| Captain Commerce, high-flown banker, hedonistic, down-at-heel?
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| A Puritan of moral fibre, voice raised in praise magnificent?
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| Or rested in assured repose, knowing my lot in quiet content.
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| What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens fly, soft petals on a breeze.
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| What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens.
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| Why-nots, Perhaps and Wait-and-sees.
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| Suppose bold woman, quite unsuited, brave in adventure, sojourns wicked.
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| Velvet touch and lips soft-centred, tossing hair, teeth bared in laughing.
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| Imagine idyll Summers never-ending, Winter nights beside fire roaring.
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| Touched by madness, filled with fondness, kissed by love, love without name.
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| What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens fly, soft petals on a breeze.
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| What-ifs, Maybes and Might-have-beens.
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| Why-nots, Perhaps and Wait-and-sees.
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| So, you ride yourselves over the fields.
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| And you make all your animal deals.
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| And your wise men don’t know how it feels
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| To be thick as a brick… two |