Sixty-Two
If you wanted astrology, I would be an astrologer; if you hoped for music, a singer then.
As it was, you had one wish only: that I not run away.
The speaker addresses someone with a list of roles they would have taken on—astrologer, singer—if those had been the other person’s wishes. But the actual request was much smaller and more fragile: that the speaker not run away.
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