And What If I Cark It Tomorrow Poem by Francis Duggan

And what if i cark it tomorrow life without me will surely go on
And i will have had a good innings my better days will be long gone
I've had a go at slipshod rhyming and I've penned my share of doggerel
And I've seen three score years of Summers in that way i have done quite well.

And what if i cark it tomorrow i want to go without fanfare
I do not wish for tears at my passing for someone else your tears you should spare
Or whether my remains they bury or whether to ashes me they burn
Out of an act of Nature i was born and to Mother Earth i will return.

And what if i cark it tomorrow I've had sixty years of life that's not bad
And I'd hate to think that at my passing that someone might feel a bit sad
The ears of the dead deaf to all sound and your sobs they never will hear
In death there is little for to fear tis just the fear of death we do fear.

And what if i cark it tomorrow of me good or bad do not say
In truth i did have a good innings and for all of us there's a last day
I've not been one of humanity's successes just your average sort of a bloke
And I'm one who tries to enjoy life and i can enjoy a good joke.