If I Had Known
By Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
If I Had Known
If I had known
Two years ago how drear this life should be,
And crowd upon itself allstrangely sad,
Mayhap another song would burst from out my lips,
Overflowing with the happiness of future hopes;
Mayhap another throb than that of joy.
Have stirred my soul into its inmost depths,
If I had known.
If I had known,
Two years ago the impotence of love,
The vainness of a kiss, how barren a caress,
Mayhap my soul to higher things have soarn,
Nor clung to earthly loves and tender dreams,
But ever up aloft into the blue empyrean,
And there to master all the world of mind,
If I had known.
Main Idea
Why I Chose "If I Had Known"
If I Knew- Bruno Mars
I was a city boy
Riding to danger's where I'd always run a boy who had his fun
But I wouldn't've done
All the things that I have done
If I knew one day you'd come
Now baby, I know it breaks your heart
To picture the only one you wanna love
In someone else's arms
But I wouldn't have done
All the things that I have done
If I knew one day you'd come
Baby, please
Let's leave the past behind us, behind us
So that we can go where love will find us
Yeah, will find us
I know most girls would leave me
But I know that you believe me
Baby, I, I wish we were seventeen
So I could give you all the innocence
That you give to me
No, I wouldn't have done
All the things that I've done
If I knew one day you'd come
My Poem
the long tear stained nights
that turned into red eyed mornings
i understand
why all the pain and the heartbreak
would lead to a light
that would fill me up
and make me complete
if i had known that you would come
sweep me off my feet
and infatuate me with your comfort
maybe i would have done things differently
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but now i understand
why it never worked with any one else
the stars in my dark hopeless nights
shined on to point to you