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Do I Have Tomorrow

DO I HAVE TOMORROW

I could have done It Yesterday
that task that need be performed.
Sometime before the clouds had formed 
Early in the morn. 
I could have started.
And maybe finished. 

I could have had a swift farewell
With all the time left in the world.
Will tomorrow come, praytell?
As the old adage goes;

"Tomorrow is not promised"
What it holds nobody knows.
Yes, I could have done It all today;
But I bought my self some time.

I should have written, how much I needed to see your face once more;
How I could have followed you to wherever it was you wanted to go. 

But I was saving all that for the next day. 
There is always tomorrow, didn't want to crowd out your day. 
If I had known that the things that happened, 
we're going to happen; I would have answered
the question that your eyes asked of me. 

I could have said something that made sense.
Done something to make a difference.
I do not believe in tomorrow anymore.
I only know of the now. 
 
Not certain about two minutes from now.
Tomorrow, I know will come for someone'
Tomorrow, left me stranded on the road waiting.

She took her last induced breath, an all my tomorrow's
are now empty. This place I occupy called earth.
This flesh, this life, This certain death.
I find has left me bereft. 

Even If tomorrow comes for me, and promises me more of the same,
I would trade them for three of yesterday's most painful days.
If I could only hear my daughters laugh again.
I'd speak of tomorrow no more.

Today, I care nothing for tomorrow.
I only wish to relive three days before that day
As I dwell on yesterday.

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