Our mortality is

just a moment of sorrow

in the vastness of tomorrow.

The sorrow is mitigated,

not by where we have been,

nor by what we have done,

or how much we have

accumulated and spent.

But rather, by how much

we have loved and been loved.

How much we have smiled.

How much we have laughed

and how much we

have embraced our fellow men.

David Garlick, Sidney, November 2003