Do you ever wonder
What will happen when you're gone?
Will your life be food for
Others to reflect upon?
Did you make a statement,
Leave a legacy behind?
Did your life have meaning,
Were you passionate and kind?
Will this world remember you
For all things, great or small?
Did you do the best you could
When others came to call?
If you could do it over,
Would you live it differently?
Take the time to smell the roses,
Be the best that you could be?
Take the chances you were given
That you carelessly passed by -
If you knew your life was over
In the blinking of an eye?
Today is the beginning
Of whatever lies ahead -
So live like you were dying...................
And be glad that you're not dead!
Linda Ori
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-you-re-gone/
