We’ve almost made it! It’s the penultimate prompt in the Garden
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Penultimate Visit
If I had known tomorrow
You would be gone
I might have sat beside
Your bed a little longer
Told you all the things I
Love about you
Remembered stories from
Our childhood – the times
We giggled until our bellies
Hurt – the times we cried over
Lost pets
I would have asked you all the
Questions I had saved for
Another time
If I had known this day would
Spill over into your last
I would not have hurried home
To read a book and drink a cup
Of tea
rhymeswithbug 
So much to regret, those unanswered questions, especially..but never regret the friendship that brought you there on the day before.
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Oh this is sad and nails the prompt right on the head…that ‘if only’ we are left with that can never be grasped. Wonderful writing.
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Thanks Paul
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The things we would do, say (or not), if we only knew what was coming next… *sigh*
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… to open our hearts, to take even a few moments to tell what’s on our hearts – to do so in an unsappy way – that would be a gift. Sweet, poignant poem.
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Ah yes, I have a few of those regrets too.
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Yes I have those regrets as well…
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Thanks Candy – the penultimate is what judges us most relentlessly. We should ever act as if this were the last.
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This is soo sad 😦 I have had those regrets too…
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Oh my I carry those regrets also
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