The Song.

The Song.

The following is a poem from “Life as a Bean,” a children’s book in search of a publisher. It consists of 112 parables of life that may or may not be inspirational (depending on your love of horses, vegetables and other nonsense):

A man wrote a song, a very nice song

Yet no one recalled the words

“It goes like this,” everyone said

Or that’s what they thought they heard

They forgot the chorus or forgot the verse

Or forgot which verse came first

Yet everyone thought it was such a nice song

Except, of course, for the words

A woman wrote a song, a very sad song

Yet no one remembered its name

“The world’s so full of songs,” they said

“Sometimes they’d all sound the same”

The lyrics were sad, they remembered that

They spoke of tears and pain

But everyone listening had to agree

They couldn’t remember the name

Somebody wrote a number one hit

A song you couldn’t forget

Every word in every verse

Seemed to stick in your head

People hummed it, some even strummed it

The sales kept soaring and soaring

Till out of the blue — except for a few —

Everyone found it boring.

Copyright by Robert Bruce Cormack

Robert Cormack is a freelance copywriter, novelist, children’s book author and blogger. His first novel “You Can Lead a Horse to Water (But You Can’t Make It Scuba Dive)” is available online and at most major bookstores. Check out Yucca Publishing or Skyhorse Press for more details.