Sidney Beck Poet Quatern

If You Were Here

IF YOU WERE HERE


If you were here with me right now,
Oh, how life would be different.
I’ve missed you since the time you went :
Our time would be so richly spent.


I’d tell of  steps I had to take,
(If you were here with me right now)
Seemed  important for their own sake,
And  try to explain each mistake.


We’ve been separated so long :
Things I could put right which were wrong
If you were here with me right now;
But you can’t hear my voice’s song,


So my good intentions each day
Are worth nothing  -  as hell’s roadway
Is paved broad with them  - you would say,
If you were here with me right now.

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Entered in  Dr.Ram Mehta’s  Contest  “ Quatern”

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Nancy Jones November 13, 2011 at 2:47 PM Oh man, those phrases that begin with if... killer, as you captured with rawness I admire. Write on, Syd ~N

Poet Destroyer A November 13, 2011 at 12:07 PM Sidney,I like that part on clearing up mistakes...good luck in the contest...p.d

Carrie Richards November 13, 2011 at 9:03 AM That haunting repeated verse is one I have often sung in my head.....how different things might have been. Deep impact lies in each word of your poem.

Tony Lane November 13, 2011 at 5:16 AM Well done Sydney. Tony