How Much - Elizabeth C. Herron

[Larry Robinson]

How Much

When the time comes
and you are still not ready
and everything you did has added up to
just this, because who wants
to go into the cold dark
and after all this maybe 
is your only one -- this life 
and did you love it
what you were given? How much
did you waste wishing and weeping
and gnashing your teeth
when you could have danced --
when you could have
what you are leaving now


	- Elizabeth C. Herron