I am just your ordinary mortal of blood and flesh and bone <br />And one day i will be dead to life and as lifeless as a stone <br />Or as dead as the dodo as some are known to say <br />We live only for a short while and then to dust decay <br />No different to the ageing cow that's how myself i do see <br />And since she is only born to die is she different to me? <br />None ever have come back to tell of a life beyond this Earthly shore <br />And the longest human life in time not long and is death forever more <br />Scientists claim without human beings there would not be a universal consciousness perhaps this may be true <br />Yet in our lives this thing known as success most of us do pursue <br />Then where the hecks does this leave me am i all wrong to say <br />That what we do achieve in life won't amount to much one day <br />A mere mortal is all i am mortal in every way <br />And time is running out on me i have known a better day.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-mere-mortal/
