Nobody Dies Tomorrow

What if tomorrow

You should hear I am dead

Don’t bother to cry

Don’t worry your head.

Nobody dies tomorrow

Everybody dies today,

I don’t mean to be funny

Just let me have my say.

Tomorrow never comes

Everything happens today,

You may not believe me

But it was always this way.

No doubt you are thinking

That I have lost my mind

But think a little more and see

It has been so all the time.

Don’t worry about tomorrow

That’s counsel true and wise,

Tomorrow will take care of itself

That’s what the Bible advised.

Check St Luke 12 verse 22

It’s really about tomorrow,

Check it out carefully

It’s good advice to follow.

So if I should die tomorrow

That’s really improbable

But regarding this very day

That is very possible.

I find it particularly amazing

The unpredictability of life

And even more so these days

With its increasing strife.

Let not tomorrow be a worry

Concentrate on today

For the time that you will die

Will always be today.

  

So if you should suddenly hear

That I am dead tomorrow,

Such would be a news item

Too huge to even swallow.

I can’t claim immortality

This is not my intent

But right now I am alive

And it’s today on which I am bent.

Nobody dies tomorrow

Everybody dies today,

You can’t cry for me tomorrow

Life doesn’t operate that way.

Stewart Russell © April 2019