The One Who Claims All Lives Poem by Francis Duggan

They may be famous and wealthy but in one way they are no different to you and i
On that in one day or night they too will have to die
Their status does not impress life's reaper at all
The one who claims all lives will eventually pay them a call
Their fame and their money could never impress
The one who treats as equal failure and success
And who is feared by all as the monarch of death
Who eventually robs everybody of life's living breath
The years do go quickly beyond the physical prime
And tthey too will grow old like all others in time
As time is our master and it is not a lie
That the longer you live the sooner you will die
And the one who claims the lives of the young and the old
Cannot be bought by money or gold.