WHAT IF

What if time unraveled, running back
What if you surfaced from the deep water's black?
What if lightning returned to the clouds it broke
What if the tack came before the tick spoke?

What if the horizon brought the Sun back home
What if rains rose, to the clouds they'd flown?
What if no had never crossed your tongue
What if the word was never among?

What if clock arms spun to the left
What if rivers climbed mountains, defying their depth?
What if your lips stretched a smile so thin
What if our shroud was the pale of our skin?

What if the echoes returned to their sound
What if the lost were always found?
What if the tears climbed back to the eye
What if goodbye was a tender hi?

What if the heart unbroke its own pain
What if we danced in the falling rain?
What if the clock uncounted its years
What if the silence erased all fears?

What if the stars fell back to the sea
What if we dreamed who we used to be?
What if the paths we left behind
Could twist and turn, and realign?

What if the words unsaid were spoken
What if the promises stayed unbroken?
What if the touch that slipped away
Could linger here, and always stay?

What if the scars rewound to the wound
What if our fate could be retuned?
What if we could unmake regret
And weave a life we'd never forget?

What if the moments we let slip past
Could find their way to us at last?
What if the end rewrote the start
What if the whole reversed its part?

What if the waves that crash ashore
Returned to oceans forevermore?
What if each breath you once exhaled
Could carry words you never unveiled?

What if each shadow cast by the Sun
Could walk itself back to where it begun?
What if the hands we failed to hold
Could warm us now, against the cold?

What if the questions that time denies
Could tear apart all its disguise?
What if tomorrow reached for today
And all that we lost came back to stay?

What if the world spun on a thread undone
What if beginnings and ends were one?
What if time unraveled, thread by thread
And wove a tapestry of what we said?

What if the oceans unlearned their tides
And the Moon forgot how to pull or guide?
What if the mountains crumbled to sand
And built themselves where rivers now stand?

What if the winds rewrote their refrain
And carried whispers through memory's plain?
What if each tear became a pearl
Unstrung from the necklace of this fragile world?

What if the fire that scorched the land
Returned to the spark cupped in a hand?
What if the stars unlit their glow
And mapped constellations we'll never know?

What if the words that were left unsaid
Became the ink in a book unread?
What if the roots climbed out from the soil
Reclaiming seeds from time's long toil?

What if the mirror, cracked and cold
Reflected the face we used to hold?
What if the clock's arms, weary and worn
Spun in reverse to where they were born?

What if each heartbeat, each fragile sound
Traveled backward to where love was found?
What if the shadows fled from the light
Chasing the dawn into endless night?

What if the rain, unfallen, stayed
In clouds that refused to dissolve or fade?
What if the kiss that ended the dream
Flowed back to lips like a silver stream?

What if the ashes of what was burned
Rebuilt the bridges we thought had turned?
What if the earth unspun its thread
Undoing the dance of the living and dead?

What if regret dissolved in the skies
And time unveiled its eternal disguise?
What if the void, vast and profound
Returned each echo we thought was drowned?

What if the end was a doorway wide
Leading us back to the other side?
A flood of questions, a tale complete
A mirror of time, where all paths meet