Life is like toilet paper It starts out a pure white, plump with years And it seems to last forever Until it doesn't And only when it's almost gone do you realize That the roll is nearly gone At last, you sadly peel from the cardboard cylinder A pathetically thin sheath that tears and comes off as shreds The skeleton remains, an ugly dilapidated brown And you look into the trash can Realizing that you can't get that roll back anymore That you could have used the roll more wisely That you could have made it last longer And that it was completely filled with ****