Have I made enough time for love?

It’s gotten late in life Dear Ones.
So many voices are now gone.
I hear them late into the night,
and I find myself awake till dawn.

I think about the years behind me,
All the lives that touched my own.
Did they know how much they mattered?
Did I leave too much unknown?

Have I made enough time for love?
Have I made enough time?

There were days I gave so freely.
There were days I closed the door.
There were times I stopped to listen.
Times I could have listened more.

Someone needed understanding.
I was certain I was right.
Someone needed me to stay awhile.
I had somewhere else to be that night.

Have I made enough time for love?
Enough time for love.

Through the years I’ve been given,
Was I giving enough?
Oh, enough of my love.

All the things I thought would matter—
Some I can’t remember now.
But I remember who was there for me,
And who I let down.
There is just so much time for love.
Is there still time now?

There is love I never noticed
Till the hands that gave it stilled.
There are kindnesses I’ve carried
Through the years, and carry still.

Did I pass them on to someone?
Did I help somebody through?
Some may know how much I loved them.
Some I never told I knew.

All the love we have been given…
What did we do?
What did we do?

How can you know
If you have loved enough?

I don’t know.
There is so much I cannot mend.
Some will never hear the words
I should have spoken then.

But someone living needs a kindness.
Someone needs to be believed.
Someone needs a place beside us
With no price for them to meet.

And I am here.
Oh, I am here.

There is still love you can give.
There is still love you can give.

Is there still time for love?
There is still time for love.

Can this heart keep opening?
Open it now.

With the years I cannot live again,
And the things I cannot change—
There is someone here today.

There is just so much time for love.
Let me give what I can give.
Let me hear another’s sorrow.
Let me learn how they have lived.

Let me ask to be forgiven.
Let me thank the ones still here.
Let me say how much they matter
While my voice can reach their ears.

For the times I turned away—
Let me turn toward someone now.

For the love I took for granted—
Let me thank somebody now.

For the hurt I’ve held so tightly—
Help this heart to lay it down.

For a life beyond my knowing—
Let me make a little room.

For the ones who loved me through it—
I will carry love from you.

While we’re still here on Earth,
While there’s time to do some good,
Let us love as much as we can.
Let us love as much as we can.

One day someone else will sit here,
With my years behind them, too.
They may wonder if I loved them.

Oh, let them know.
Let them know I do.

There is still this moment.

There is just so much time
For love.