Let me tell you
there are things you'll want to do
before you die.

Kiss
every family member
even those you wish
eight feet under.

Tell that family
that you love them.

Tell them not to mourn our death,
to celebrate it.

Make your great nieces and nephews
promise to be good,
even though you know
they'll break that promise,
sooner or later.

Look through those family photo albums
that make you remissness
while you drink wine straight from the bottle.

Take a trip
to those places
you dreamt about,
the ones  you talked about to your spouse
for hours on end afterwards
because they'd felt so real.

Straighten out you will
and leave that obnoxious relative
your ****** sweaters and cheap trinkets.

Take another walk on the cliffs
where you lost your virginity
and had your heart broken,
yell your frustrations into the wind.

Spend the nights
in the arms of the one you love,
every time its better,
impossibly so.

And now that you've done all
the meaningful things,
the things you wont regret doing;
die happy.