Cherished Substance

What if a man sees   
His fortune before his time   
What if  Vincent van gogh saw his price    
Before his passing   


How many a master piece   
Did he paint and scrap for fear in notion   
That people will not like, dislike in taste   


What gems do we lose   
Through circumstance of situations   
What if Jimmy Hendrix had lived past his demons   
And Amy did too, what if 


What a show could it have been, would it have been     
For Michael Jackson, the show man 
To have made the greatest come back of all time   


What if life was a bit fair, what if
And trails and errors made way 
For street lights, omitting wrong turns, what if   


What if tragedy could not be   
The definition of cherished substance, what if
What if weights we carry, are void of hallow substance    


What if love and passion 
Is not tested by sacrifice and loss 
To define its true value, what if 


And in the sky, what if 
Truthfully, truly  all is as 
Van Gogh saw it to be