What if Friar John had known the gravity of the content of the letter he carried?

Would he then not have stopped in Mantua for a travel companion  

and therefore not been delayed by the accusation of the plague?

What if Friar Laurence had come up with a better plan?

What if Miss Capulet had simply told her parents the truth?

What if she had married Count Paris?

What if the apothecary hadn't been a poor man in need of money?

What if Romeo had never gone to the ball?

What if Juliet were a stronger woman

And Romeo a less fickle man? 

Would we, even today, know of them? Of Romeo and his fair Juliet?

What if Mr Shakespare had decided to give the young lovers a happier end?

Would we be as interested in their peaceful love as we are in their tragedy?

If the story were simply that they had lived and loved..

Would we, even today, tell their story and know their names?

And if not, what does that say about us as a people?

“From forth the fatal loins of these two foes, 

A pair of star cross’d lovers take their life; 

Whose misadventured piteous overthrows, 

Doth with their death bury their parents’ strife.”

Did two souls have to be lost for two feuding families to make peace?

I think the even greater tragedy would have been had they not.

Juicy Raindrops! ♡