Re: OT Retirement Speech Needed

Posted by Steve(OR) on September 02, 2004 at 09:44:29 from (158.48.6.10):

In Reply to: OT Retirement Speech Needed posted by txblu on September 02, 2004 at 05:42:59:

In the spirit that your retirement is the death of your working life and the birth of your new life, whatever good things it may hold, I've always been partial to this poem. It may work better if you can get someone to read it about you though.

Reincarnation, by Wallace McRae

What is reincarnation? A cowboy asked his friend.
It starts, his pal replied, when your life has reached its end.
They wash your neck and comb your hair and clean your fingernails,
And put you in a padded box away from life’s travails.

The box and you goes in a hole that’s been dug in the ground.
Reincarnation starts in when you’re planted neath the mound.
Them clods melt down, just like the box, and you who is inside.
And that’s when you're beginning on your transformation ride.

And in a while the grass will grow upon your rendered mound,
Until one day, upon that spot, a lonely little flower is found.
And then a horse may wander by and graze upon that flower
That once was you, and now has become your vegetated bower.

Now, the flower that the horse done eat, along with his other feed,
Makes 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 lies upon the ground, this thing that once was you.

And if perchance, I should wander by and see this thing on the ground,
I’ll stop awhile and ponder at this object that I’ve found.
I’ll think about Reincarnation and life and death and such,
And come away concludin’, txblu, you ain’t changed all that much.

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