Back in Michigan
It's a little warm, and I'm having my first real day off since school started. Not much to report so I'll post a poem instead.
What gives worth to a life, is it money or fame
Can it come through luck, or by winning a game
If you're smart and you study 'till you know all your books
Or if your features are striking and you have good looks
Can you look back on your life and truthfully say
That you are at peace with yourself on your dying day
Is worth measured by love, sex, honor, or greed
How many napkins possessed how many laurels received
Can we measure the worth of one human's life
Be it in court with a lawyer or at night with a knife?
Money is lost and fame passes with time
Games are for fun lucks not worth a dime
Brains are so fragile, knowledge slips away
We all know how long our good looks will stay
Love, sex, honor, and greed, both feat and fault
They need not consume they can be brought to a halt
If society kills, takes a murderer's life
Who will console his family, daughter and wife?
I propose that worth deals with none of these things
But concerns the care shown to our fellow human beings.
What gives worth to a life, is it money or fame
Can it come through luck, or by winning a game
If you're smart and you study 'till you know all your books
Or if your features are striking and you have good looks
Can you look back on your life and truthfully say
That you are at peace with yourself on your dying day
Is worth measured by love, sex, honor, or greed
How many napkins possessed how many laurels received
Can we measure the worth of one human's life
Be it in court with a lawyer or at night with a knife?
Money is lost and fame passes with time
Games are for fun lucks not worth a dime
Brains are so fragile, knowledge slips away
We all know how long our good looks will stay
Love, sex, honor, and greed, both feat and fault
They need not consume they can be brought to a halt
If society kills, takes a murderer's life
Who will console his family, daughter and wife?
I propose that worth deals with none of these things
But concerns the care shown to our fellow human beings.