I sat and marvelled one day
At a snail, as I watched him toil away,
\'Oh! Mr Snail can I please ask
Why you need to set yourself such a task,
How long does it take to scale the wall
On the side of my house, so tall?
And why, I ask, if I dare
Do you travel a journey to nowhere?\'
\'I climb the wall because I can
And I can do it with one foot unlike a human!
I know it takes a long time and my journey is slow
But I don\'t know how far I go
Because of people like you - I loose track -
You and your kind keep knocking me back
To where I began - so I start again
To climb the wall in your garden,
And in answer to what else you ask
About why I do such a task-
I don\'t know it\'s a journey to nowhere
Until I arrive and see what\'s up there!
But what can I do? I\'ve many hours to fill
And this is my job, it\'s God\'s will.\'
And then he was gone, annoyed at me
For questioning his right to be!