If Only, So What


Your answer to everything
is
“if only.”
if only . . .
we were older
things would be different
if only. . .
we were closer
things would be different.

But my answer
is
“so what.”

So what . . .
if we are young
things won’t always be this way
so what . . .
the miles don’t have to separate us.

Eventually . . .
your “if only’s”
and
my “so what’s”
will compromise.