INDISPENSABLE
Sometime when you're feeling important,
Sometime when your ego is in bloom,
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're 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 your wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how you'll be missed,
You may splash all you please when you enter,
You can stir up the water galore,
But stop - and you'll find in a minute,
That it looks quite the same as before,
The moral of this quaint example,
Is do just the best you can,
Be proud of yourself, but remember,
There's no indispensable man.

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