Muscle and bone know constraint
within the confines of its birth
when the warmth of the Sun wanes
it will feel the chill
- of the six feet of dirt it will ever own
down in the dark earth to sleep
at the ending of the days
when the Sun goes down
this body will know rest
returned to the womb
from whence it first came
and my dear spirit
bereft of its body corporeal
will go to its allotted place.