PARALLEL

What would have happened

If a different path was chosen

Where would I be

If I hadn’t been frozen

Would the tears

Have showed signs of slowing

Or would they

Have begun overflowing

Who else would have been there

If anyone at all

Would I be free to leave

Or coffined behind my own walls

The decisions we make come with

Consequences; unable to rehearse

Suffocating in the what ifs

Of a parallel universe