Chicken egg

Chicken egg

by Joel Howard

We are all born into earth, like chickens from eggs

We all have heads, arms and legs

Naked we enter, naked we return

And from the chicken egg there's a lesson we can learn

A wealthy man complains of the size of his garage

Like a chicken the tint of his egg

The poor man wants a larger home as well 

and the chicken no doubt wants a bigger shell

But from the scope of eternity, when we're born into heaven

We will forget the way things have been

Like a chicken casts off that once central shell

We will forget all we strove for, in our poverty or wealth

"I wish I was yellow or spotted or stronger" 

but we wont care about these old shells any longer

When Jesus returns and we all go home

We will wish we had made his name central alone