There Is No Such A Thing As Complete Greatness

There is no such a thing as complete greatness though I recall I've called some people great
For us humans our span of life a brief span and all of us we have a use by date
Our number of heartbeats are not beyond counting the longer you live the sooner you will die
And that goes for so called royalty as well as working class to everybody these words do apply.

We are only flesh and bone and blood and water and we quickly age and go into decay
And Mother Earth to all of us a mother she sustain us and we'll return to her one day
John Shirley the famed poet once wrote of 'Death The Leveller' and with his words how can one disagree
The reaper claims the wealthy and the famous just like the reaper one day will claim me.

Some people for good reason are remembered though records of their lives in time will fade away
And life goes on no matter who comes or goes and April it will be followed by May
And August it will fade into September and Winter days will fade into the Spring
And centuries from now at nesting time male songbirds on trees around their borders all day long will sing.

There can be no such a thing as complete greatness for everybody one day has to die
And in time the longest human life is not a long span the weeks and months and years go quickly by
To the reaper all forms of life are equal and he is not known to respect wealth and fame
He will claim the monarch like he claims the pauper and everybody to him much the same.