Whatever You Achieve In Life Poem by Francis Duggan

Whatever you achieve in life there will come the day
That the Reaper of lives will come reaping your way
The Reaper who does not respect money or fame
The one who treats every life as equal and the same
Immortality for human kind is based on a lie
Like all other mortals we are born to die
Fleeting our younger years and our physical prime
Eventually we all become victims of time
Death brings an end to hope and to fear
The tolling of the funeral bell for you is one you will not hear
Though one good thing of death i do have to say
There is no inequality where dead people lay
We are born as mortals why otherwise pretend
Whatever we achieve our life's journey must end.