The Weight Of What Could Have Been Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEE FGH I JKLM I NOPMQ ARE ST UVW GX YZA2Y B2OA EC2X D2E2F2 G2GH2I2 H2J2A2O H2GI2 H2SK2C| I wish we never met | A |
| Us crossing paths was surely destined | B |
| But was it really the right time | C |
| - | |
| I keep having these thoughts | D |
| Was it too early | E |
| Or were we just not ready | E |
| - | |
| The chemistry was good | F |
| The experience was not all rocky either | G |
| But we weren t grown | H |
| - | |
| That was too soon | I |
| - | |
| We had an idea | J |
| An idea of what love was | K |
| But we couldn t shake off the fact that | L |
| We were just kids | M |
| - | |
| That was too soon | I |
| - | |
| We did communicate | N |
| That was what was needed of us | O |
| But we are just humans | P |
| Just kids | M |
| Misunderstandings were bound to arise | Q |
| - | |
| I wish we never met | A |
| That way we would ve remained strangers | R |
| I wouldn t think of you this crazily | E |
| - | |
| We are still growing | S |
| Still not fully developed | T |
| - | |
| Real talk | U |
| Couldn t we have just met after decades | V |
| Couldn t life have shaped us first | W |
| - | |
| Instead it used us to shape each other | G |
| That was truly cruel | X |
| - | |
| Because now every lesson carries your name | Y |
| Every silence somehow sounds like you | Z |
| And every version of love I try to imagine | A2 |
| Ends up looking like what we almost became | Y |
| - | |
| Maybe we loved with wounded hands | B2 |
| Trying to hold something neither of us | O |
| Fully understood yet | A |
| - | |
| Maybe that s why we broke so easily | E |
| Not because the love was fake | C2 |
| But because we were fragile | X |
| - | |
| I hate that timing mattered this much | D2 |
| I hate that growing sometimes means | E2 |
| Outgrowing people you once prayed for | F2 |
| - | |
| And still | G2 |
| A part of me hopes life becomes kinder | G |
| Kinder enough to let us meet again | H2 |
| As people who finally understand themselves | I2 |
| - | |
| Maybe then | H2 |
| We would not love out of fear | J2 |
| Or confusion | A2 |
| Or loneliness | O |
| - | |
| Maybe then | H2 |
| We would stop hurting each other | G |
| While trying to heal ourselves | I2 |
| - | |
| Until then | H2 |
| I ll keep wondering | S |
| How something that felt so right | K2 |
| Managed to arrive at the wrong time | C |
N. Khanyile
(C) All Rights Reserved. Poem Submitted on 06/12/2026
Poet's note: The poem explores how genuine love can fail when two people meet before they have fully matured, suggesting that timing and personal growth are just as important as love itself.
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