On Searching For The Meaning Of Life Poem by Francis Duggan

You may be highly educated with college and university degrees
But searching for the meaning of life is like searching for money on the bushes and the trees
Or a poor mangy dog who is never at ease
And goes without sleep as it scratches for fleas
For the meaning of life it would be fair to say
Is like searching for a needle in a stack of hay
On your idea of what life is about few with you would agree
And what is for you on this also applies to me
Only know into life we are born to eventually die
As the dog and the cat the same for you and i
Only know that time that rusts iron becomes everyone's foe
And i gave up on searching for the meaning of life many decades ago
I now just want to live on for as long as i can
And die in my sleep without pain as a very old man.