For the wealthy and famous and the stranger to fame <br />The journey through life it will end much the same <br />For everyone born there is a last day <br />The clock on our lives it keeps ticking away. <br /> <br />On everyone in the World a use by date <br />And death for us all is a certain fate <br />And if you are World famous or one without a friend <br />It all amounts to nothing when it comes to the end. <br /> <br />Celebrities live and celebrities die <br />In that way they are not any different to you or to i <br />If in a hereafter so many believe <br />Then why for their dead do they bother to grieve? <br /> <br />To the wealthy and famous and the poor refugee <br />Death comes to all as to you and to me <br />Like the fruits of the Autumn when ripe they must fall <br />The journey through life it must end for us all.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-journey-through-life/
