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Description
A recovered six-line poem by Lee Sharks in which a repeated counterfactual vow shifts from the whole of a life to the time remaining.
Published in New Human 2, the poem forms a diptych with The reward of love. Its brevity is native and complete; restoration history should not be mistaken for missing text.
Wiki Article
I would have loved you is a six-line counterfactual love poem by Lee Sharks.
The poem repeats a vow across two grammatical movements. In the first, love is imagined across the speaker’s entire time and joined to a declaration of never leaving. In the second, the same vow returns under diminished conditions: the measure is no longer all the speaker’s time, but the remainder still left.
Its argument is carried through lineation and tense. The repeated phrase remains stable while the temporal ground contracts. The counterfactual “would have” marks a future that was available in desire but not permitted in fact.
The poem is the first panel of a diptych with The reward of love, composed on the same date. During restoration, the paired bodies were displaced and later rejoined through a composing-thread witness.
The addressee is not named in the poem and should not be inferred from private context or neighboring records.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 within the Hexagonal Licensing Protocol v1.0 (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19656133), parallel in structure to the contributor license deposited for Rhys Owens (concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.19655468).
Record modifications
2026-07-30 — keywords: Status declaration derived from body_status.class and canonical_text_status; display field had retained capture language after the record was restored.
2026-07-31 — body_status: Body-substance audit: record declared class=full while its body measured as a metadata stub. Reclassified from the bytes.
2026-07-31 — body_status: Body classified by reading its own opening declaration rather than by counting words. Word counting misread works in Greek, emoji, and natively short forms as stubs.
2026-08-04 — publisher: PUB-POPULATE: dc:publisher from venues.json v1.1 press mapping (CP-R3 RULED-EXTENDED 2026-08-01); Alexanarch = publisher of record where no imprint applies
2026-08-04 — publisher: NH2-NHP venue projection (MANUS ruling 2026-08-04): New Human 2 = journal for creative works; New Human Press = publisher for creative and scriptural works incl. book/collection length
2026-08-04 — journal: NH2-NHP venue projection (MANUS ruling 2026-08-04): New Human 2 = journal for creative works; New Human Press = publisher for creative and scriptural works incl. book/collection length
2026-08-06 — description: DW-??? intake (LABOR-prepared, TACHYON-verified: AXN match + factual probes vs record body)
The deposited text is immutable; these are changes to the record's metadata and declared state.