REINCARNATION
What is reincarnation the cowpoke asked his friend.
His pal replied it starts when your life comes to it?s end.
They wash your neck and comb your hair and clean your fingernails
They put you in a padded box away from life?s travails.
Now that box and you goes in a hole that?s dug into the ground
Reincarnation starts in when your planted neath the mound.
Them clogs melts down just like the box and you who is inside
And that?s when your beginning your transformation
ride.
In a while the grass does grow upon the rendered
mound
And then some day on that lowly grave a single flower is
found.
If a horse should wonder by and graze upon the
flower
This thing that once was you but has now become your
vegetative bower.
The flower that the horse dun ate with all his
other feed
Builds bone and fat and muscle essential to the steed.
But there?s a part that he can?t use and so it passes through
And there it lays upon the ground this thing that once was you.
Then if by chance I wonder by and gaze upon the
ground
I?ll wonder and I?ll ponder at this object that
I?ve found.
I?ll think of reincarnation, of life and death and
such
And I?ll come away concluding- Why, you ain't chanced all that
much !
Wallace McRae