If Only...

If only things were different.
Would she have been happy?
Would life have given her a gentler ending-
or was this always how it was meant to end?

She doesn't ask for much.
Not miracles. Not perfection.
Just a version of life where choices didn't hurt so deeply,
where love wasn't complicated,
and where "if only" didn't echo so loudly in her head.

And maybe that's the cruelest part of all.