Not For Everyone Poem by Francis Duggan

The past only lives on in your memory
Of what was for you but can never more be
We can only live in the now when all is said and done
And tomorrow will dawn but not for everyone
The gift of life with us not destined to stay
For all of us there is a last night and day
The fact is we are born as mortals and fact never lie
And the longer you live the sooner you will die
Though they are remembered in history today
Many of the famous and celebrated in cemeteries lay
Nature's reaper on their lives did have the last say
That death is the equalizer it does seem this way
We are born as mortals when all is said and done
And tomorrow will dawn but not for everyone.