Of the Beauty of It All

I'm drifting on the water

Far out from the land

Moving through my memories

As I try to understand

If I wake tomorrow wiser

Or it's time to shed my skin

And let go of a lifetime

That I can't have back again

All the love we leave behind

All the work we leave undone

All the words we leave unspoken

All the things we won't become

But there's little I would change

In the life that I recalled

If I could paint a picture

Of the beauty of it all