DONE AND DUSTED:

 I was born long time ago, was shown the light & given life at birth,

Conceived in love, pumped with breath & launched upon this earth,

I was taught the rights & wrongs & how not to break the million rules,

I learned the ropes of living, through parents, mentors & many schools,

I learned about the tenets & gospels from books & umpteen teachings,

And I heard harsh admonishments from the elders & their preaching’s,

I worked so hard & toiled the soil, for my family along with all the rest,

I was never deemed to be anything special & always tried to do my best.

From babe I was duly taught, to kneel & pray to the one & only God divine,

I always did, between my bouts of rolling weed & quaffing good red wine,

I have never been the saint they thought & have often popped those pills,

Trying so hard to forget this world with all its silly cracks & sorry sickly ills,

I have walked-the-walk; talked-the-talk & I have even sadly plodded streets,

I have tasted the acrid & the sour, along with the sometimes lucky sweets,

I have produced my pretty little daughters & also those manly desired sons,

My duty, so humanity may continue as we know it, in the way it had begun.

Along the way, I have told many truths & done my fair share of blatant lying,

I´ve done my best & have often failed, but not for the want of always trying,

I have asked forgiveness for my many sins & then thrown them into the bin,

Now, as wisdom´s shown, my life´s not a race, that I must either lose or win,

I have loved & hated with breath abated, through life´s long corridored halls,

Now the end is nigh & all I see, are eternity´s coffin-clad & dark awaiting walls,

 I thanked God above, that I never gave up, never fell & was never really busted,

And in the end, I knew I had lived my life well & now all is truly done & dusted.