Backwards

You will enjoy this poem I came across from a book called Dangerous Wonder: The Adventure of Childlike Faith, by Michael Yaconelli. The poem's author is anonymous, but it will warm your heart and put a grin on your face. I love it.

Enjoy.

Life is tough. It takes up much of your time,

all your weekends, and what do you get in the end of it?

I think that the life cycle is all backward.

You should die first, get that out of the way. Then you live twenty

years in an old-age home. You get kicked out when you're too

young. You get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty

years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement.

You go to college, you party until you're

ready for high school, you go to grade school, you become a

little kid, you play. You have no responsibilities.

You become a little baby, you go back into the womb,

you spend your last nine months floating, and you

finish up as a gleam in somebody's eye.