I Look At Life That Way Poem by Francis Duggan

There will come a tomorrow when I won't wake to light of day
And those who know or know of me of me will only say
He did have a good innings he has lived for many a year
The World goes on without him for others save a tear.

I see the carcass of an old ewe in a paddock yesterday
Her flesh by dogs, foxes, birds and maggots eaten she smelled strongly of decay
Around what did remain of her clumps of her wool scattered lay
Yet than me no less a mortal I look at life that way.

The World's most celebrated people inspire story, song and rhyme
But they too are mere mortals they go the way of time
The masses may admire them and mourn them when they are gone
But despite the widespread mourning without them life goes on.

There will come a tomorrow that I will not wake to see
Yet the magpie in the Parkland will pipe on the wattle tree
And I will return to Nature and on her bosom lay
Just like all other life forms I look at life that way.