A Moment Of Truth Poem by Mark Heathcote

Every day is a kind of ‘what if' kind of day.
But 'what if' today were a different kind
of 'what if' kind of day ‘what if' this day,
happened to be you're final ‘what if? '
kind of day, would you do anything differently.

Forget those commitments
and their long-dead ideology,
what would you do differently?
Be selfish, come now be serious
would you leave the sick and lame?
Would you toast that dying minute?
For a second's worth of selfish fame.

Or would you earnestly,
just carry on all the same.