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                      A glance,

                         A moment,

                       And you're here once again.

                      You give me those looks.

                             The ones that bring it all back.

                      The ones that say I'm someone

                          you could have

                            would have

                               loved.

                      If we had it to do over

                              I wonder if you would

                           take away the "could have"s

                             and "would have"s.

                       I wonder if I would.

                               Then I would simply be

                             someone you loved.

                       And then would we tack "once"

                             onto the end?

                       A finished affair?

                           Or would we be scandalous

                       and put "still" in there?

                       Or maybe we would lose the "-ed"

                              all together.

                           I would be someone you love.

                       No, that wouldn't work.

                           That would change our present.

                       Maybe any of it would.

                           But wonder is all we can do.

                       The present is promising

                           and the past will never change.