In a Different Place and Time

In a different place and time,  
I know your heart could have been mine.  
        Given the time to talk,  
              Given the time to share,  
               The time to laugh,  
              And the time to care.  
Maybe then you could have allowed me  
to see your true wants and desires;  
   Rather than the ash of dreams  
   consumed by the fires.  
To  know the real you, not the package  
put out there for everyone else.  
   The true you, the one that you  
   keep hidden on some back shelf.  
I know that if given the chance,  
I would have given my whole heart to you.  
Never wavering always true.  
   Because I know no other way to love, it burns  
   as a consuming raging fire like the sun above.  
I'd want the chance to love you wholly,  
not for fragmented form of lust.  
   Something strong, something built  
   on trust.  
For if your heart were mine,  
I would nurture it with love for all time.  
   To hold and to cherish; never to neglect  
   nor forget or take for granted.  
A love so selfless, so committed,  
with one single mind of which you  
you could never be supplanted.  
   A love so longing, a love so true that it  
   would wait a lifetime for you.  
If only in another place and another time,  
I know that you could have been mine.