The best laid plans
By Christopher Mathews
The
best laid plans of mice and men often fail and fail again.
They
come to naught or grief or pain - but the world goes round and round the same
Such is all their worth
The
fieldmouse builds her home in vain, just before the ploughman came
to strip
the soil, her straw built shed and leave her tiny offspring dead.
Beneath the naked earth
‘House
for sale, with mountain scenes, on the shores of
A city built on mirth
Fool! the man who builds on sand and takes
not heed for how he plans
Come soon or late, our end will come and
what is left of all we’ve done?
Unless you have new birth
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The above was inspired by the Robert Burns poem, To a Mouse.)
Copyright Christopher Mathews, June 2026
One for contemplation, cogitation? Well laid out, I didn't even change the font! Well written, pause for thought...
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