Always have to be ready to go
What do we take with us?
What do we have to show?
Leaving is never easy
Our luggage nearly packed
What do we discard?
What do we gift?
To lighten our burden
To enable our shift
The door is always open
Could be any time
But we must be ready
Whether painful or sublime
The moment not ours
Our departure unexpected
but never a surprise
No one knows if anyone cries
The folly of assumptions made
We ponder what could have been
Did we get a passing grade?
Never pass this way again
We forgot
that when we were born we began to die
The law of averages never apply
Time is in infinite motion
Just a drop in the ocean
No room for regrets we dread
Or of the words unsaid
Time to unpack the baggage
It is getting late
I hear the train coming
My destiny and my fate
This much is true
Life is so short
I am ready to go, are you?