If time allowed me to live two lives instead of one, <br />I would have no obligation except to love you. <br /> If only time allowed. <br /> <br />If I had known I was steering you into his arms, <br />What different words I would have spoken. <br /> If only I had known. <br /> <br />If you had known my deepest thoughts and dreams, <br />(Perhaps you would have waited for me.) <br />What a life of love we might have shared. <br /> If only you had known. <br /> <br />If I knew then what I know now, <br />(I would have waited for you.) <br />What sorrows I could have undone. <br /> If only I knew then what I know now. <br /> <br />And yet, if ever a man loved a woman, <br />Even if only from afar, I loved you! <br /> And <br />If time allows for second chances, <br />I will love you still in this life or the next. <br /> If only time allows.<br /><br />William Jackson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-only-time-allowed/
