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What if, I could have changed it all back then?
What if things as they happened in the past had gone totally different
What if I was the one having been able to make that change so significant
What if Order 66 never had the opportunity to really happen after all
What if we had gotten Palpatine figured out way before it was too late
What if the Republic had thrived and won the war, that being the end game played
What if the soldiers, the clone troopers, all of them my friends, had lived
What if the Dark Side was defeated and Anakin never became a Sith
What if the galaxy got better because of the terrors endured during the war did
What if I had taken the chance to change it all when it was to me offered
What if I had taken the plunge into the very world where things turned out different
What if I had been the one to have the courage to step through the looking glass
What if I had been the one who played a the decisive role to make things right at last
What if I and all of us got to live long good lives because of my decision a new galaxy created
What if all those lost souls could have been saved because of this change I had made
What if I only could myself forgive for never taking the plunge to make the change for them all
What if I had dared to be that hopeful one, for all of them, being more, strong
What if… the question always and forever present as even if I try so hard to relent, to forget the what ifs and just, forgive myself and live?
For now, only the what if remains, the pesky words hanging over me like a sharpened blade, perhaps soon on me to fall, guess then, I will finally have my peace, from all the what ifs?