The Artful Dodger's blog: "My Poems"

Could Have Been

dedicated to : Barbara Clive Caruso

Could Have Been

Life is filled with "could have beens"."should have beens" and more.

Lives that touch and fade apart,Missing what's in store.
A fleeting star passed through the sky Lonely for a wish,

Whizzing off to other worlds Dismayed at being missed.

Ships pass unseen in the nightThey float on doldrum seas

Failing to excite a tide Or stir a living breeze.
Where love was new it fades away And other roads we've ta'en

A wasted chance for true romance What "could have been" we've slain.

And yet we stop, look back in time and see what we have missed;

A gentle laugh, and loving smile and lips we've never kissed.
Perhaps and maybes,might have beens and what ifs fill our minds.

Two roads once leading far apart; could they each other find?

And then one day they intersect That wish, our star has found.

Two ships have gained that steady breeze to lead them homeward bound.
So, side by side we stand and walk we face the coming day.

Now knowing that our "could have been"forever's gone away.