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Will we ever know

Will we wake up that morning and feel it in our steps

Or when we walk outside to get the morning paper-will we stop

For no apparent reason

And notice something that was there all along

Because when that day comes, I want to know

And maybe I'm being silly, but when you think about it -why wouldn't you?

I would want to make that last hug long and thoughtful

And look deep into their eyes

Call from work and leave a message

Because I know it's what I would want

And even though I couldn't stop it

I'm sorry you erased his voice from the answering machine

I'm sorry the last thing you'll remember him saying was "Don't wait for me"

I'm sorry you didn't get to say goodbye

But most of all I'm sorry you feel nothing

Because the hardest thing is I bet you wish he knew

So he could have felt it in every step he took and stopped outside and noticed the thing that was there all along

Give his family a meaningful hug, look and embed their faces in his mind

But when it comes to that very last second eveyone knows

Because he stopped where there was no red sign

But there was

A sign only he could see

Telling him he had reached an end

And he drove on because he knew he couldn't do a thing about it

Life is written..