All Is Vanity

Why must a man measure his success
in the amount of "stuff" he owns?
When at the end of his living days
he must leave it all with a groan?

Why must we have more than our neighbor?
There is no prize to win.
You will just spend your life never living
only to leave it all in the end.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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