We see and hear them
All the time,
“Nobody else can do this job!”
“I know how to do it!”
“All my life I have been doing this.”
“I won’t show anybody else, it’s my job”
These people that think they know it all,
And nobody else can do the work they do.
They may well know what to do,
And probably do it well,
But what they say and believe
Is to justify their life to themselves.
What they never seem to realise though
Is that the graveyard is full,
Full of indispensable people.
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Author:
Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: You get these people all over the place, only they know how to do it.
- Category: Reflection
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Comments4
Nobody writes 'em like you do though Andy.
Have you decided on an epitaph? My ex told me a couple of years back that she wanted a certain song to be played at her funeral "be cool" by Joni Mitchell. I am envious of her choice. Joni's lyrics are to die for.
As a young man, waiting for dead man's shoes job promotion wasn't good enough for me and took me onto adventures where i swiftly rose to my own level of incompetence. Where I comfortably remain .... I know my place LOL
I have my funeral all planned and the song I have chosen to leave the service from is:
https://youtu.be/-eJOJhwgluE
Andy
Good write Gold.
If it was a joking matter - I will come and wake the dead - I will sing!
Thanks Orchi.
Well at least it wasn't 'My Way', Andy....
But beyond that , since oldsters have stuffed life , the climate, the whole damn thing up, It's high time another generation had a go....Much more complicated than that, I know - but tonight that's where I'm leaving it.
It is a good write, too...
It is not the oldsters who have stuffed life, in our day we were saving world by recycling things unknowingly.
Thanks Dave.
Andy
You are welcome, Andy.
Not quite sure of the reference to recycling - interesting.
I think my response was really generated because it reminded me of the song 'My Way'. First time I heard it, I thought that it was great - and then I found out that it was top of the pops when it came to funeral songs . Couldn't help but connect it to the blokes (was blokes, I bet) you were complaining about...Thumbs up for Bill Haley. Should have 'em rocking in the aisles 😊
Good write, Andy.
Yep the world and the grave is full of the self right.
Thank you Jerry, so true.
Andy
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