How Can We Know

How can we know what lies ahead Tomorrow we might wake up dead And yet we make our lifelong plans As if the future's really man's In hot pursuit of daily bread We hang on words that Buffet said* And wish by rich men to be led We insignificant grains of sand How can we know Through dark of night we quave in bed Though morning comes, still fear and dread Our troubling thoughts, they have not fled Where vision's mostly blind and bled How can we know Iambic Tetrameter *Warren Buffet, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, is arguably the most successful stock market investor who's ever lived. He is definitely the wealthiest.