Musings - Legends Poem by Paul Warren

Legends build on history's page
Their achievements all for others to gauge
But what make's them to be outstanding?
Was it within themselves to be so demanding?
Were they ordinary people pushed to do great things
And so fame from it to them brings?
What would Churchill have been without a war
Where would Kennedy be without the shot from the book store?

I think there needs to be a person for the time
Where events make a course so sublime
It may be that some higher force picks them out
With strong conviction and constitution that's stout
They were there at a time, day and place
To take the hit and continue on in God's grace
And so we have Drake, Napoleon and Lincoln at call
As legends we remember as the pages of history recall


© Paul Warren Poetry