Who would we have been if they hadn't done this to us?
Best friends or lovers or even strangers, alas?
Would we have stood against the oppression together,
holding our trembling hands against the tightening tether?

Would we have burned for each other in unending passion
or would we have hated another with the darkest aggression?

Would we have heatedly debated on how to break our chains?
Would we have disagreed on the differing methods and plans?
Would they still have been what they became in the end,
the hypocrisy burying our original intent?

Or could we have succeeded, our souls still intact,
never corrupted the way that we were and instead
could we have come out of this with a lighter heart
badly burned on the edges, yet where it mattered unmarred?

Against all odds, could we have retained who we were?
Or would we have walked among corpses without a care?
Could we have saved everyone if they hadn't taken you first
or would our roles simply have been reversed?

Would we have been heroes in another life?
Would we have been the light in each others eyes?
Would we have stood together, in a time never seen?
Have you ever wondered as well? Who we would have been?