I am Nothing

I am Nothing

Sometime, when you are feeling important,

Sometime, when your ego is in bloom,

Sometime, when you take it for granted,

You are the best qualified in the room,

Sometime when you feel that your going,

Would leave an unfillable hole,

Just follow this simple instruction,

And see how it humbles your soul,

Take a bucket and fill it with water,

Put your hand in it, up to the wrist,

Pull it out, and the hole that is remaining,

Is a measure of how you will be missed.

You may splash all you please when you enter,

You can stir up the water galore,

But stop, and you will find in a minute,

That it looks quite the same as before.

The moral in this quaint example

Is do just the best that you can

Be proud of yourself, but remember,

There is no indispensable man.