If I Die Today a poem I wrote back in 2010

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If I Die Today




If by chance I should take leave this life today, will you remember me?
If I should happen to die, I say, would my name you recall, would my face in your mind see?



I wonder sometimes if I should chance to leave before you.
Will you be even a little blue?



You know my friend, death is a dread we all must face.
Yes, it is a dread, as I've become familiar with this place.



I'd like to leave this world that is of a certainty true.
But I'd like to skip that dying part, as the thought of not breathing make me blue.



To be cold and stiff as stone, it seems so final so certain.
It is a thought my mind does often to my dismay entertain.



If I should happen to die today, would you remember the games we did play?
If I should die today, would you say good riddance, or perhaps wonder where my soul did stray?



Dying it seems happens so often, causing pain so deep, wedging a separation so final between our bodies and souls.
Life so full of lingering sorrows, yet fleeting and faint, soon our death will separate us from our most pressing tolls.


 
My friend if I should die tonight, remember it is only my body that has turned stiff and cold.
My friend if I should die tonight, remember it is only my body that has grown withered and old.



Death it is certain, often coming in the night.
Death stands nearer to us than our dearest of friends, death it gives such a fright.



The night is long spent, many have died tonight, and they'll never wake to see the morning light.
My friend today many will die. Will it be you, or me, or some other, who'll from this life take flight...



I wonder if I should die tonight, who will remember me, and why.
Will the tears flow, or will all eyes be dry?