I imagine one day soon
  I will feel deaths hand
    placed softly on my shoulder
her touch will be warm and tender
  and I won’t have to turn around
   to know she’s there
I’ll feel the weight of the grief
  swimming in the tears
   of the family I leave behind
I’ll hear the whisper of future laughter
  from all of those I loved
    when pain and grief
     trade places with found memories
as my life flashes before my eyes
  I’ll invite death to sit beside me
    and I will slow down the replay
      and I will pause and point
       and laugh and pause
        and shake and cry
       and pause again
      and point again
     and laugh until I cry
    one last time
   one last time

as we begin my walk through valleys
  unknown to me
    I imagine death will smile
     to have witnessed
      all I had to share