They may be very famous people and leave their footprints in the sands of time <br />And their legends may live on for centuries and even outlive the poet's rhyme <br />But their fame won't live on forever though them the masses celebrate <br />For every living thing barring Mother Nature has on it set a time date. <br /> <br />Every living thing barring Mother Nature will eventually go into decay <br />And even from history's pages be lost and forgotten one day <br />Suppose that's what makes all things equal and whether we are buried or burn <br />Mother Nature is there to receive us and to her bosom we'll return. <br /> <br />All of my best years behind me and I've lived most of my time span <br />Less than two years short of sixty soon I will be an old man <br />Every day nearer the last day that is the end for us all <br />To us then it will not matter if the living our names won't recall. <br /> <br />Every living thing barring Mother Nature must bow to old father time <br />And though the achievements of some great people may outlive the great poet's rhyme <br />Their fame has on it a time date it has often been said before <br />That only herself Mother Nature will live on forever more.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-living-thing-barring-mother-nature/
