All I wanted to say,

I wouldn’t be standing here

Feeling this way.

If only I has said

All I wanted to,

I wouldn’t feel so guilty

For all of us losing you.

If only I had been

A better friend, I think,

You’d be here with us

We’d have our missing link.

If only you had been

Anywhere else but there,

You’d be here where we love you

Where we really care.

If only I had been there

To keep you from all harm,

We could be sitting here together,

Arm in arm.

Alica Hall