If I Should Die Before You Poem by James McLain

If I should die before you
where shall I go
where shall I wait
all I can do is watch you.

I had lived so long without you
before you came and
how it was that I lived,
was not really living at all.

Then when you came, I realized
my life if without you,
wasn't a true life when living
my life here without you.

And now to the moon
and my love of the sky
how beneath the green willow's
you opened my eye's to the star's.

It was then that I knew
that if I were to go first that
I'd find your special place,
that place in the sun
your place in the sun a place I could wait
and stay warm.