Contribute a verse, contribute a verse, <br />Who can contribute a verse? <br />Contribute a verse, contribute a verse, <br />You can contribute a verse. <br /> <br />You may be an underpaid lab’rer, <br />Streetsweeper or overworked nurse, <br />A migrant without any papers, <br />But you can contribute a verse. <br /> <br />You left school at sixteen with no GCSEs? <br />Did you graduate from Oxford with a First? <br />Makes no diff’rence, not one bit, for you both are fully fit, <br />Well-equipped to lay before the world a verse. <br /> <br />You may have no notes in your wallet, <br />You may have no coins in your purse, <br />No shoes on your feet, no breakfast to eat, <br />But you can contribute a verse. <br /> <br />Are you feeling sad and lonely, <br />In the depths of misery? <br />Do you feel this Life we’re living <br />Is not worth the entrance fee? <br /> <br />Are you sure that things will not get any better? <br />Quite persuaded they will go from bad to worse? <br />No great problem, drama, crisis, doesn’t matter, <br />As long as you can come up with a verse. <br /> <br />And it’s possible you’ve heard that our days upon this earth <br />Are not many, are not many, precious few. <br />We have hardly enough time to take in all of the sights, <br />Or do the things that we would like to do. <br /> <br />For we’ve barely crawled out of the cradle, <br />Then they cart us away in a hearse. <br />So, in the meantime don’t be idle: <br />Be sure to contribute a verse! <br /> <br />27/9/06<br /><br />Denys E. W. Jones<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-can-contribute-a-verse/
