If You Hadn't Chosen

The hallway’s heavy, the sunlight fades Sore, tired, not ready, you make your way; The tears come unbidden. Oh, how will you lose That which you keep hidden, that which is not yours to choose? And you will wonder forever and now on How it might have been, how it might have gone If you hadn’t chosen to go the other way Would you have been happier right now, today? You will always hide it, you will share the blame You will not confide it, the pain or the shame. The darkness falling, you have nothing to say; The ache is calling, but everything’s in the way. Glassy-eyed angels carrying your faith, Everyone is strangers: you wish you could make them go away. And you will wonder, forever and now on How it might have been, how it might have gone If you hadn’t chosen to go the other way Would you have been happier right now, today? You will always hide it, you will share the blame You will not confide it, the pain or the shame.