Thanks to WoLfor promoting Wirral Words tonight. Hope to see lots of you there. And congrats to the great success of Wolers at the Liverpool Slam. 

 

Earth to Earth

 

Where is the earth

from which I was born?

Which is the ash

of my birth?

How was the dust

from which I was thrust,

given breath and

life and girth?

Was it magical mixing

with bell and book,

plus the grace of a god

with a whim?

Or the sweaty poking

my mother took,

from my dad who

was drunken and grim?

Am I the mystical

gift of grace,

from a merciful lord

beaming down?

Or do I fill,

my dead brother's place?

Just to lighten

my parents frown?

When I am cast,

back to the earth,

the ash and the

dust in the ground.

Will I be told what

my life was worth?

Or will it just end

in that mound?