Before I left
I should have taken care of business
and rid myself of all my selfishness

I know it's too late for me now
To relate face to face
But maybe now I can do so from this
forbidden place

Before I left
I forgot to tell you I was sorry
I forgot to help you dream your dreams
I left behind unfinished business...

Before I left
I forgot to smell the roses
The dew in the air...everything around me
Everything that was there

I didn't take the time
No, didn't take the time
  I thought I had plenty of that
I didn't take the time to read the Bible
or any really "Good" book

I didn't take time out for me
Much less anyone else around me

I forgot how to pray
Even just before I left
Maybe He would have taken me anyway
If I had only asked Him to that day...

Before I left
I forgot my family, my friends and myself
In so many ways
All I had to do was do more for them
In some special way
Then maybe, I could have left behind a legacy

Maybe these words can wake you up
Maybe they can make a difference
Brother, I just wish now
They had been told to me!

Then maybe, just maybe
There would have been a better ending
To the story for me...

Before I left
I forgot what life was really about
Why I was there, and how I could have
made myself right with me Before I left...

It's too late for me now
But that's the moral to the story I tell...

Take every day notwithstanding
And with it comes a passion for
Understanding....all the heartaches,
sorrows, and bad fortune that come your way

I would give anything short of life
To have it all back again
Beginning all over knowing what I do now...

Don't feel sorry for me
I'm in that other place
I can only say to you now
You will truly feel sorry for yourself
If you don't embrace today

Embracing yourself, others, and Him
Something I refused to do when I left
And carried on...

Before I left
I left too much behind
And I can never get it back

For you who I never took the time
To call a friend...

I hope you take care of business

Before you leave...

Dan Crenshaw
March 18, 2000

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