If I could travel back in time
I’d travel to your side
Back to the day I said ‘I do’
And you made me your bride
I’d make my promises again
And wear the same gold ring
Then share another life with you
And wouldn’t change a thing
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If I Could
A funeral poem for comfort during unsettling times
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