Am I Any Better Poem by Francis Duggan

Am i any better one of millions who eat meat
Than the creatures that others kill for me to eat
Since like them i was born to life for to die
This is a fact of Nature and fact does not lie
When i look at life in this way it occurs to me
That i am not as important as i make myself out to be
Billions believe in life after bodily death but without concrete evidence for to show
They are believing in something on which they do not know
And i am one of the more cynical who believe life ends in bodily death
That we never again live when of air we draw our final breath
Like all other life forms for me a last night and day
And the longest lived human life in time a short stay
And i a mere mortal born to die eventually
No less a mortal than the creatures seen as inferior to me.