We Are Here But For A Short Span Poem by Francis Duggan

We like all other creatures that run or walk or fly
Are only here for a short span to re-create and die
And those who do not re-create are those who create space
For the huge increase in populations of a burgeoning Human Race.

We are here but for a short span few live beyond eighty years
And our value to society at the judgement of our peers
We are mostly judged by money and the assets that we own
And to people in high places far too much respect is shown.

As regards money and assets I must seem quite ordinary
And if those two mostly matter that doesn't say too much for me
I am not seen as important just an ordinary guy
Just another one of the many that success seemed to pass by.

Still in truth I do not worry and it doesn't bother me at all
If my contribution to society is looked upon as small
So I won't be losing sleep to worrying of what others of me say
Since in less than fifty years I'll be forgotten and I'll have had my day.

Of years only a small per centage of human beings live to beyond four score
And like all air breathing creatures we won't live for forever more
And the value of our worth to society at the discretion of our peers
Still to you it will not matter if your name lives for a thousand years.