When the day comes

Let it nip at your bones like the bitter cold in the depths of Lake Superior

When the day comes let it

Take you

Swallowed by the fervid sea

Let your memories flash and dwindle

As the fire does

Let the embers hold kind words

Let them hold kisses

When the day comes to die

Don't fear the empty

Just wonder what it means to know

God

Wonder if it means to know god

And when your children say I love you

Into nothing

Pray your ghost answers.

When the day comes don't be

Startled

By your own phantom

When the day comes leave the red lines on the door

Leave your blessings in the will

Become at one with being still

And hope that when it comes

You don't fear that goodbye