If

If we had known the year before you left,
would we have changed anything?
Would we have said "Let's leave him alone,
let's play with him?"
Would we have changed anything?
The day we lost you was the day no one could hate another
for we all realized how much
A life really meant to us all.
They cried and wept and screamed and hugged those who survived,
Those who could cope and live on.
Your viewing was the most touching moment in my life,
in our lives,
And no one could really speak for they all knew not what to say.
The silence fuelled the feeling to cry,
to close and break all barriers
Between highs and lows,
Lives and deaths, survivors and copers.
If we had known a day before you left,
Would you not have gone?

Dedicated to Michael O.

By; T.Rose