*Note* Not all poems have to rhyme, do they? Because some of the best ones I've seen don't. Okay, that's all I have to say.
If I could...
If I could, I would have known about this.
I shouldn't have been taken
Shouldn't have allowed it to be done.
But it was too late when I realized the truth,
And I was no longer in control.
If I could have realized it sooner,
Would this have happened?
Now I ask,
bottled up in the back of my own mind,
Why, God, why?
But the answer doesn't matter.
Because it won't change anything.
I didn't mean to be dragged into this,
This war between worlds.
But I was.
And I hate it.
If I could, I would stop it right now.
I see my brother, Jake,
And I see the faint flicker of pity in his eyes.
And I think...
What if I could have turned back time?
Stopped this from happening to myself?
Would he still have that look?
Would I be able to tell him?
Did he already know?
What if I could warn him?
I thought of these things in vain,
Because I knew it woul never happen.
But I still think, though it be a naive thought,
What if I could?