8/14/06

If Tomorrow Never Comes
Written by Kent Blazy and Garth Brooks

Sometimes late at night
I lie awake and watch her sleeping
She’s lost in peaceful dreams
So I turn out the lights
And lay there in the dark
And the thought crosses my mind
If I never wake up in the morning
Would she ever doubt the way I feel
About her in my heart

If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she’s my only one
And if my time on earth were through
And she must face the world without me
Is the love I gave her in the past
Gonna be enough to last
If tomorrow never comes

‘Cause I’ve lost loved ones in my life
Who never knew how much I loved them
Now I live with the regret
That my true feelings for them never were revealed
So I made a promise to myself
To say each day how much she means to me
And avoid that circumstance
Where there’s no second chance
To tell her how I feel

So tell that someone that you love
Just what you’re thinking of
If tomorrow never comes

Please don’t harm anyone with your words. Do make sure that the people you love know that you love them, of course; but don’t strike out in anger with your words any more than you would with your fists or feet or ….

Recently, old wounds were reopened. Oddly enough, people I love very much have opened them up. They were not being verbally abusive; in one case, I was reminded of an instance of verbal abuse that occurred nearly four years ago, and in another a word was used in reference to my behavior (inadvertently) that just made my skin crawl and made me take (yet another) good hard look at myself and my behavior.

I am having a wonderful birthday. I am about to leave the office and head out to run an errand and then go home, where I shall make pasta with sausage sauce.

So bear with me if I get a little weird and pensive or whatever it is I am just now. Or blame it on Aunt Flo. Or don’t. Just … take care of yourselves, and love who you love as you love. And think about what you want them to remember you saying to them.

As they say in my neighborhood: Peace out.