The True Worth Of Others Poem by Francis Duggan

To the flaws of others so many seem blind
We do make great heroes of ordinary kind
Tis from the impressionable that legends are grown
Some do not seem for to have lives of their own
Though ordinary enough seems the lives that they lead
Of their love affairs we are happy to read
We give them their wealth and we give them renown
And the ordinary one is the toast of the town,
Their brief passionate affairs glossy magazines sell
The heroes and heroines of the age of the kiss and tell
With many they are the topic of the day
Yet they seem so shallow in their shallow way
And yet we make heroes and heroines of the ordinary
The true worth of others we somehow cannot see.