She Posed the Question

She posed the question with no real intent

Curiosity surely her only motive

My mind on memories then was bent

My brain steaming like a locomotive.

I passed through blue filled summer days

On a farm and in a small city

Learning about the country ways

In the state of the Big Sky Country.

And I can't imagine life without you

But I know that day will come

A day I'm not looking forward to 

Whoever said the best is yet to come.

Back then I was merely a lad

And my granflolks seemed so old

And you were a young man then, Dad

Your life a story yet to be told.

We'd sit there in that living room

Your dad so proud of the things you'd done

And I'd wiggle up close beside you

Dreaming of the man I'd become.

And I can't imagine life without you

But I know that day will come

A day I'm not looking forward to

Whoever said the best is yet to come.

The years have passed and we've changed places

Now I'm the man in the middle

And my son wears my old young face

Heaven, life is such a riddle.

And soon you'll be off to see your dad

And it'll be me in that room with my son

And Oh what joy there will be to be had

As I sit with my son and his young one.

But I can't imagine life without you

And I know that day will come

A day I'm not looking forward to

Whoever said the best is yet to come.

I hope I can put this to  music 

Before that day arrives

In a form so I know you won't lose it

In that eternal home up in the sky.

'Cause if I can give you this gift

Then I know I'll always be with you

And when I play it, it'll give me a lift

As it carries my soul right to you.

Because I can't imagine life without you

But it will only be mortality

And it won't be long 'til I am with you

Because we are an eternal family.

October 1993