had I choice
of how life ends –
where destinies align
would someone write your name
with bits of mine

how far from then
this poet dreamed
with words
the heart might hear
of angels resurrected
for moments
here

could be no everafter
longing for these days
no paradise
could e’er suffice
to loving you
this way

had i choice
of heavens
a place
I’m sworn to be
some other dream
I dreamed
you’d come
for me

had I choice
of how life ends –
a version of the rest
I’d best believe
our destinies aligned
that gods were
having coffee –
one day amid the clouds
when someone wrote your name
with bits of mine

. . .