If You’d Known

If you’d known it would end in heartache

Would you go on the first date?

Would you ask that person to be your friend?

If there was a chance it would lead to hate?

Would you set up your own business?

With the knowing it could fail?

Would you cancel your long awaited road trip?

With the forecast it may hail?

It turns out— you’d do all these things

Cause overall— that’s what humans do

Aware of the fear

Holding their heart— with the risk

With all that can ensue