Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IF I WERE YOU, by CARRIE BURRINGTON


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IF I WERE YOU, by                    
First Line: If you were I, and I were you
Last Line: If you were I, and I were you!
Subject(s): Identity


If you were I, and I were you,
What are the things that we would do?
Perhaps we do not know just what,
And so to tell would rather not!
How can we know what we would do
If you were I, and I were you?

Perhaps the things that now seem strange,
Would not be so at closer range;
They might indeed quite disappear,
And everything might be made clear;
So we would have a different view,
If you were I, and I were you!

So when I do things that seem queer,
And you -- well -- I'll not interfere --
Let us remember as we go,
That causes are unknown, and so
We cannot tell what we would do
If you were I, and I were you!





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