You Never Know

She would always give a kiss hello…

and then a hug goodbye.

One day, when I was older,
I stopped…to ask her why.

“Because,” she said, “I never know 

if this moment will be my last.

If today I get to keep on living…

or will I slip into the past.”

“So every moment I am alive,

I try to laugh

to love

to cry…

and why I’ll always kiss hello

and hug to say goodbye.”

She has been gone for many years now

but I like to think she’s smiling from her place up in the sky…

every time she sees me kiss hello…

every time she sees me hug goodbye.