whenever someone leaves us
we always say, ”they were so young,
their life shouldn’t have ended so soon.”
and it doesn’t matter whether they were young or old
but maybe when they do leave us
maybe what we mean is that they waited too long
that all they worked for for themselves was lost too soon
that they waited too long to be able to reap the rewards
that the tragedy of life is not that it ends soon, but that we’ve waited so long for it to begin