What If

What shall we sacrifice today?
Is there not sacrifice in all that we do?
The altar has many names:
Family, friends, love, dreams,
anything that we hold in our hearts is a worthy offering
to the gods of what if.

There is sacrifice in standing still,
for we forego a new destination.
And the haunting torment of knowledge
and the pain of ignorance fight ‘till the death
in the unanswered question of, what if.

The battleground of decisions made,
the graveyard full of fleshless hope,
the invisible tears cried in the rain
the promises we made to ourselves all in vain.
A legacy left and a burden to bare all in the name of what if.