To Be a Cow

 

Just lumbering across the fields
  Or nibbling at their grassy yields
    Or standing calmly in a pasture
      Fearing no earthly disaster

Maybe it is they who know the truth
  That man forgot back in his youth
    That time is one of man’s inventions
      To gauge our deeds and best intentions

Oh to stand beneath a tree
  And marvel at a bumblebee
    That pollinate the many flowers
      That turn to fruit through summer showers

But unlike them I have a past
  And days that never seem to last
    And so it is I’m thinking now
      Of what it is to be a cow

Robert Longley