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You now hold a part of me I never intended to let go of.

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Your what if can’t save what has already happened. We can only endure pain, accept the truth, live with it, and move on. 

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What if I was brave enough to ask how you felt about me?

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You force yourself to let go of someone you never wanted to let go of, and you choose to move forward without them.

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Don’t let yourself be defined by the almosts of life. 

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My mind has become a storage unit of every memory of us, each file labeled starting from the first day I met you to the day I lost you.

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What if the what ifs you stress about end up being what ifs that work out for your good?

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How sure am I that I needed these to be real? That I wanted to change what happened in the past? 

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I should’ve said yes. 

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But, in the space between ‘what if’ and ‘what is’ there lies a ‘maybe’ a ‘just might’ and a ‘what could be’. There lies possibility, and that’s where the leap lives. That’s where chance hatches – in the risk, a hunch of intuition leading to decision, a spark of opportunity to be brave in the face of change.