You Didn't Become Poem by RAJ VIKRAM

You didn't become what
you could have easily become.
And I waited ages with hope
that knew no limits.

I knew you could become
And you were fleetingly
that, what you were always
but you didn't become it wholly.

You knew I was around
always around with flickering
but inextinguishable hope.
And insufferable I never ever felt.

You may not have become
But I would take heart in knowing
that some are like that
meant to become but didn't.

I could always tell myself
just to draw sustenance from it
that you were meant to be that
what I yearned you would be.

What if you became that
I won't ask myself that ever.
But I would hold on to the thought
that you could have become.