Maybe
Maybe - meaning Summary
Uncertain Love and Choice
This short lyric explores hesitant affection and the provisional nature of choice. The speaker moves between doubt and openness, repeating "maybe" to register uncertainty about belief, marriage, and knowledge. Evocations of the prairie and sea suggest uncontrollable forces that might resolve the question, but the poem ends with a softly tentative commitment: a head on a shoulder and an affirmative maybe
, which keeps possibility alive rather than confirming it.
Maybe he believes me, maybe not. Maybe I can marry him, maybe not. Maybe the wind on the prairie, The wind on the sea, maybe, Somebody, somewhere, maybe can tell. I will lay my head on his shoulder And when he asks me I will say yes, Maybe.
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