We may claim that we own the land and from land ownership we gain <br />But the land is only our land for as long as the life in us remain <br />But our land we can't take with us when we cease to live and die <br />And the one with the deeds to ten thousand acres is a mortal as am I. <br /> <br />We may think the land is our land but thought has proved us wrong <br />The land it was always here and to none the land belong <br />The land ours only for a short span and then we pass it on <br />And someone else will hold the deeds to it when the life from us has gone. <br /> <br />Humans are like Nature's Seasons to life we come and go <br />And our right to land ownership on paper we may show <br />Our land on paper only it is not ours to keep <br />Someone else will own the deed to it when we lay in eternal sleep. <br /> <br />We may have the legal document to prove it and we may say the land is ours <br />And we may claim to own the grass on it and we may claim to own the flowers <br />But we are the land's caretakers for awhile just that and nothing more <br />And what I've spoken of here has often been said before.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/our-land-on-paper-only/
