If You...

If you dared, what might you be

If you heard, what might you learn

If you spoke, what might you illume

If you lived, what might you bestride

If you were, what might you become

If you are, what might you regret

If you should, what might you not

If you could, what might you hide

If you died, what might you yearn

With the dark yearning of the drowning

Passing the last vest to one more needing

And slipping beneath the roiling waves.