We Didn’t Speak Another Word
Except To Say Goodnight.
Why Does That Evening’s Memory
Return With This Night’s Storm -–
A Party Twenty Years Ago,
Its Disappointments Warm?

There Are So Many Might Have Beens,
What Ifs That Won’t Stay Buried,
Other Cities, Other Jobs,
Strangers We Might Have Married.
And Memory Insists On Pining
For Places It Never Went,
As If Life Would Be Happier
Just By Being Different.
Wj