The Best You Can Be Poem by Francis Duggan

You may not be the high achiever of your family
But you can only be the best you can be
Help others if you can and live in the honest way
If you can achieve that much you are doing okay
As long as you do the best you can do
That is the most anyone can expect of you
And respect to the rights of all others you show
The seeds of good Karma for yourself you sow
You may not even know of fame on your side of the town
But as long as you never put anyone down
And believe in the principle of live and let live
To learn to receive you must know how to give
You only can live to be good as you can
That goes for every woman and for every man.