One's Inheritance Poem by Raj Arumugam

By daybreak
we'll be awake
and inherit the space
all round the bed

After breakfast
we'll be full
and inherit the house
and the neighbourhood

Post-lunch
will see us inherit the city
and all its streets
and all public amenities

Back in the office
before the computer screens
we'll inherit all bank accounts,
all lumped into one big amount

In the evening
as we travel home
we'll inherit the world
and all nations shall be ours

After dinner
as we drink our wine
and finish yesterday's dessert
we'll inherit the cosmos,
the wide universe

As we lie in bed
after all that
we'll inherit the earth
we'll inherit the earth
as much in length
as our bed, as our bed