As If.


What could be,

if it could exist, 

as if it were, 

as existential as it is proverbial; yes faith, yes religion,

as verbiage as it is literary; mock literacy, why don’t you,

as factual as it is mythical; as if idiocy lives in isolation,

as singular, or plural; but why, and who, keeps count,

as desired, as is unwelcome; to care, but not caring,

as needed as is unwanted, as riches is debt,

as essential, as inconsequential; the difference between clothes and apparel,

as criticism, as praise, as all revolutions began in rebellion, 

as ironic as that sounds; where one is cyclic, and the other is oblivion,

as it could be, is, or were, or would, or should, but why, and what for, and when?