What If...

Hasan Johnson 1980 (Peoria Illinois)



What if somebody loved me and held me in their arms

What if somebody had given me a chance to love them, in return

What if He never died on the cross, would we still live in sin

What if where the story ends is where it's supposed to begin

Our tears our fears exposed for all to see

What's done in the dark must come to the light, so if we gain the world and lose our soul then what profit is there for you and me

Pray pray pray without cease

I'll pray for you even if you don't pray for me

What if He never left us or forsake us and just allowed us to grow

What if time was wealth and health was credit, and we really reaped what we sow

Maybe all the answers were written in a book

What if everybody opened it and took a look

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Submitted by HasanM.Johnson on June 28, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X A A B B X B X X C C
Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 736
Words 164
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1

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