Dust If You Must

Dust if you must, but wouldn’t it be better

To paint a picture or write a letter

Bake a cake or plant a seed

Ponder the difference b etween want and need

Dust if you must, but there’s not much time,

With rivers to swim and mountains to climb

Music to hear and books to read

Friends to cherish and life to lead

Dust if you must, but the world’s out there

With the sun in your eyes, the wind in your hair

A flutter of snow, a shower of rain

Tis day will not come around again

Dust if you must, but bear in mind

Old age will come and it’s not kind

And when you go – and go you must

You, yourself, will make more dust