Sincerely, Jayvee

Prologue

To my greatest what if,

what if
i told you
from the start?

what if
i wasn’t too afraid
to admit,
to say... “i’m falling”

what if
i never hesitated...
that i had been braver?

brave enough
to love you

not in silence,
not in stare,
not in words

but...
to love you fearlessly,
and brave enough
to lose you

if only i had

then, maybe...
there’d be a ‘could have been’
instead of all these what ifs

i never know
i will never know
but still, i wonder...

what if?

— from the man who never dared