Leave a Legacy

While we’re busy growing up and living our lives
we give little thought to how we’re seen in their eyes

Focused on achieving goals and collecting things
hoping for great success and the joy that it brings

We tell ourselves,
pay no attention to what others may think
They’ll shoot us down just to watch us sink

Who needs them anyhow, they’re just in the way
and then we continue to go on with our day

I start to wonder now – what’s it all mean
It’s all melting away like a popsicle dream

The joy in my life is extracted from things
like houses and cars and expensive rings

While it was fun, it does not sustain
and does very little to ease all the pain

The pain of moving on, from losing you
all my loved ones and my little dog too

As I start to reflect upon a wiseman’s words
words of his wisdom as if talking to his herds

He said
It matters not how you leave this life
It matters most how you leave this place

that is to say
It matters not how you leave this life
death is simple, holding on is full of strife
It matters most how you leave this place
remembered by your acts of kindness and grace

But we continue to focus on all the things we want
the more we get the more we seek, a continuous hunt

Now we’re sittin’ here surrounded by all this stuff
It means so little now, walking away wouldn’t be that tough

Wish I’d collected more than material things
the thought of moving on now, really kinda stings

How will we leave here and what will they say
did we work with the people or go our own way

the things they’ll say about us will be written in stone
So make sure they’ll recall all the love that we’ve sown

and so I ask you to remember this

It matters not how you leave this life
It matters most how you leave this place

and this
this is all I have to say
How are you going to leave this place
and what kind of gifts will you leave in that space

what kind of gifts
will you leave in this space