Weep For Yourself Instead Poem by Francis Duggan

If I should die tomorrow don't waste your tears on me
Save your tears for your own self and your mortality
I will have had my innings and life it will go on
Millions far better than me to the ways of time have gone
I have had a good innings life to me is okay
And for the mistakes I have made some price I had to pay
To the higher self I am not one who happens to be true
And to Karma I will have to pay to Karma what is due
If there is a hereafter I will be in Poetasters Hell
There has to be some price to pay for penning of doggerel
But notice I used the word if this life may be our lot
And in death what does it matter if we are remembered or forgot
If I should die tomorrow one tear for me don't shed
Just think of your own mortality and weep for yourself instead