Happy Birth Day, Where were we?

Happy Birthday -- way to go!

May another year come and go

without you having to sell your soul.

Enjoy your luck, while you can.

Savor the fruits of all the land.

Soon, we pay the ferry man.

Life is short and death is certain.

Who can say with true discernment

What's behind that final curtain?

Do what you will, say what you may.

Postulate in the most amazing way.

Soon, we face that final day.

So, eat and drink, sing and laugh.

Pour yourself another carafe

and contemplate this cosmic gaff.

We hope to cheat the final end

with words, or riches, or even friends.

But always, it seems, we will pretend.

So, hoping for peace and love and worth,

We cling with certainty to this earth --

But where were we before our birth?

Wm Schaeffer 2005 2014 copyright(c)