For some people there will not be tomorrow we are mere grains in the great sands of time <br />For the doctor there will be one last patient and for the man of rhyme one final rhyme <br />We are no different to all other creatures their fate it is no different to ours <br />It makes no difference to the deceased people when their loved ones decorate their graves with flowers. <br /> <br />For everyone of us there is a last day and no proof of life beyond this Earthly shore <br />Few humans ever do live for a century and death 'twould seem it is forever more <br />Yet we create so called important people mere mortals just as much as you or I <br />Our life span in hours and days is easily measured and like other creatures we are born to die. <br /> <br />For some people there won't be a tomorrow like for every bird there is a final Spring <br />And a final nest to build in wood or hedgerow and a final brood to raise and song to sing <br />Their song they pass to the next generation and without them in the woodland life goes on <br />And like the bird there is one to replace us when the life from us forever it has gone. <br /> <br />For everyone of us there is a last day the seconds of our lives they tick away <br />The babies one day nearer to their last day the babies who were born yesterday <br />Than other creatures are we any different we live for awhile and are dead forever more <br />And anyone has not come back to tell us of an afterlife beyond this Earthly Shore.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/for-everyone-of-us/
