what if?

what if fact were the fiction we created?
what if reality were the dreams that we stated?
what if love was predetermined, not decided?
what if pain was brutal, then subsided?
what if we surrender instead of fight it?
what if embraced instead of chided?
what if we deliberated instead of hated?
what if we explored instead of conquered?
what if resources were stored and not whore'd?
what if we savored not devoured?
what if we preserved instead of soured?
what if life we lived, not just endured?
what if cries for help were really heard?
what if we believed and not convicted?
what if we invented not demented?
what if hearts were soft but not dented?
what if we had the answers, not the questions...