Could Have

I regret knowing you now,

I wish I met you sooner.

I am even angrier with the world

For conspiring, somehow, to keep us apart till this time.

So much has happened to us before this time

And I am finding it hard.

I really wish we met sooner,

But even still,

I enjoyed the time I spent with you.

We would be leaving in June.

I like you. You like me,

But we both think we don’t know these facts.

It is February.

It is very little time for all the dramatics of love.

However, people have known to meet and fall in love,

Even get married that same day.

It is still little time, to me.

And I feel we would never have the dramatics,

We hardly even say hi?!

Adaudo Anyiam-Osigwe .  From her book of poems – A Little Understanding: Poems from the End of Childhood to the Beginning of Adulthood