We are born small and naked and with very little hair <br />And in the first few years of our lives we need tender loving care <br />And before a human being learns to walk the human being learns to crawl <br />And we live till death the equalizer makes us equal one and all. <br /> <br />We are children of Nature and to her one day we must return <br />Whether we are buried as an entire corpse or our remains to ashes in a crematorium burn <br />To be scattered in wood, field or mountain or even out at sea <br />This journey that I make through life must one day end for me. <br /> <br />Success and complete failure in the end one of the same <br />For beyond the moment you cease to live you cannot enjoy your wealth and fame <br />The greatest people in the history of human kind now just a memory <br />Though they are seen as great and they left the human race enriched by their legacy. <br /> <br />We are born small and naked and one day we must die old or young <br />For the Reaper will claim the monarch as he claims the unsung <br />And we too belong to Nature as does every living thing <br />And every Spring we live to see is nearer to our final Spring.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-are-born-small-and-naked/
