The prompt at dVerse Poets Pub today is Time and What if?

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Remember the night

of the silver midnight moon

when the stars were

bigger and shinier than

they should have been?

 

What if we’d wished on the

one that had fallen—

a quicksilver flash in the sky—

instead of falling, so easily, ourselves?

What if, instead of

 

the straight, clear shot, we’d chosen

the other path and strolled it

hand-in-hand?

The winding, rutted, uphill trail

That would’ve given us

 

pause, to think and

think again.