By spaceman
Date: 2002 Nov 01
Comment on this Work
[[2002.11.01.16.44.1945]]

The Payoff

If I had known that you
would cross my path
I might have lived differently,
maybe not so many drinks
in the dark strangers,
so many women who call me lover,
maybe not so many dead end jobs
and certainly not so many fights.
I might have kept hidden
the pieces of myself that I gave
to others,
so that the heart I offer you know
wouldn't be a fractured prize
glued together with hope
and faith and wishes.
But if I had walked this road
in any other way
I may have taken a turn
down a trail that
would have lead me astray
and I have to believe
that every moment I have lived,
every trial I have suffered,
is what lead me here
to the payoff:
you.