Everyone For Himself Or For Herself

Everyone for himself or for herself and God for us all
An old saying from the past I can't help but recall
Or survival of the fittest as some like to say
Which may sound a bit selfish but most of us humans this way
With the sharp increase in the human population competition for success more intense
That is not being insightful just mere common sense
And the facts do tell us and facts never lie
That the most successful good at the promotion of me, myself and I
Many of the more humble it does seem are strangers to success
Most people humility does not seem to impress
With the increase in fame the big egos do grow
The humblest of the humble few do wish to know
Everyone for himself or for herself to most does apply
'Tis a fact of life and facts we cannot deny.







Poetry by Francis Duggan
Read 532 times
Written on 2010-04-08 at 13:44

dott Save as a bookmark (requires login)
dott Write a comment (requires login)
dott Send as email (requires login)
dott Print text



The cult of selfishness, glamorized by the author Ayn Rand, is a force not to be ignored. There is this idea that if everybody takes care of Number One, the world will be a paradise. But human beings are social creatures. Most of us at some point need someone else's help, and what's wrong with that? There but for fortune go you and I; or, as the poet John Donne more brilliantly expressed it: No man is an island.
2010-04-08