if

If you could fly anywhere on a wish 
And conjure up your heart's desire with your hand,
Where would you go and what would you explore?
Would you leave our home to set out for a foreign land?

Tempting as it would be for me to go,
Even more tempting would it be for me to stay 
Entwined in your arms every night
Hand in hand by the beach every day. 

Then let's not choose between our home 
And a life full of freedom and fire. 
Let's build a house with roots and wings
On a love that soars higher and higher.


 Rosalind Resnick
May 6, 2014