You've climbed the highest mountain and swam in the roughest sea <br />And with pride you wore the colours of your Nationality <br />And you are a National hero street signs even have your name <br />But in ways you seem quite ordinary despite your World wide fame. <br /> <br />And though of your great successes singer songwriters now sing <br />To others you feel superior and that does not seem a good thing <br />For true greatness is far different than achieving something great <br />And you are not truly a great person though many your name celebrate <br /> <br />You may be a record breaker and a World renowned athlete <br />But there is a vast difference between pride and self conceit <br />And you are too conceited the praise to your head has gone <br />Still on the day you die without you life on Earth it will go on. <br /> <br />You may be a high achiever but that does not speak all of you <br />For to the higher principles you never could be true <br />Your ego has outgrown you and success gone to your head <br />And that there's far more to true greatness than great achievements truer words have not been said.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/true-greatness/
