If I should go before you do

If I should go before you do,

If I depart ahead of you,

If I should sleep and not awake,

I pray your dear heart

Would not ache…

If you call my name

And I answer not,

If you seek my face

And I don’t respond,

If you long for me,

And I appear not,

I pray you find comfort

In this thought

“I may be gone but not forever,

One day again, we’ll be together…

Live your life with your usual zeal,

Face each day with renewed will…

For we meet to part and we part to meet.

Things can change in a heartbeat…

Do not therefore be downcast.

For one day we’ll be reunited at last…

If I should go before you do,

Live the life still ahead of you.

Why should life stop because I am gone?

Life is for living, and you must carry on.

Strengthen yourself, my precious one.

We’ll meet again, one blessed morn.”

“I may be gone but not forever,

One day again, we’ll be together…

[Author Unknown]