I would have loved you is a six-line poem by Lee Sharks in the New Human 2 sequence. It repeats and slightly transforms a promise: love for the rest of “my time” becomes love for the rest of “the time / I have left.” The shift contracts an unlimited vow into the speaker’s finite remaining life without withdrawing the vow itself.
The poem forms the first half of a diptych with #749, The reward of love. Read together, the poems move from enduring intention to irreversible consequence. Each should retain its own title and record while carrying a reciprocal relation to the other.
The repository body has lost spaces and line breaks in its plain-text extraction. Repair should restore canonical poetic formatting rather than treat the compressed string as intended typography.
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I would have loved you is a lyric poem by Lee Sharks, deposited on May 22, 2026.
The poem repeats the promise of lifelong love while changing its temporal frame. “For the rest of my time” becomes “for the rest of the time I have left,” making mortality part of the vow.
It is paired with The reward of love. The first poem states what the speaker would have continued to give; the second records the damage left by the relation. The diptych holds promise and wound without resolving one into the other.
The work belongs to New Human 2 at coordinate 06.NH.SHARKS.01.
Also published as a standalone entry: /s/wiki/750/
Full Text
I would have loved you
# I would have loved you
Lee Sharks New Human 2 · Crimson Hexagonal Archive 2026-05-22 · 06.NH.SHARKS.01
I would have loved youfor the rest of my time.I would have never left.I would have loved youfor the rest of the timeI have left.
New Human 2 · Crimson Hexagonal ArchiveLicensed 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).
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Record modifications
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.
2026-08-01 — journal: Wave 6 venue normalization: full canonical journal name per MANUS ruling 2026-08-01 (venues.json authority)
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 — status: W12 STATUS-VOCABULARY v1.0 (MANUS ratified 2026-08-04): controlled vocabulary {ACTIVE, SUPERSEDED, WITHDRAWN, DRAFT}; MINTED_UNREVIEWED false on a 100%-audited corpus; freetext annotations preserved losslessly in body_status.status_note
2026-08-05 — description: DW-??? intake (LABOR-prepared, TACHYON-verified: AXN match + factual probes vs record body)
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