If Only ....[WITH DUE RESPECTS AND APOLOGIES TO SIR RUDYARD KIPLING]

  If  and Only

If you can hold your own when

Others are outgrown,

They lose their minds and upon you thrust,

If only you can confide in your friends when others don't

But let others have their way they want,

If you are still unperturbed

By the harm they cause

Or being denied your right

You do not theirs steal

Still do not stand to stare

Nor look too unconcerned

If you can still think of more fortunate

Yet not envy those

If you can still be calm and collected

And not let others irk,

If you can still let grief and happiness

Be equal partners

And treat the two ironies

 Just the way one should

If you can still share

The fruits of your efforts

Taken away by others

Who claim it as theirs?

Or still better see them earn

Fame and name at your cost

And you can still face

The world squarely and boldly

If

If you can just forget

The wrath and damage done

With a smile give them your clap and bravo,

And let each one of your foes

Line up ahead of you

And never utter a sound

Of pain and sorrow

If you can still hold you’re cool

For long there after

To still be happy to bestow them praise

And feel not a bit of disgust

Towards malicious humanity

Expertly pass the message to them

That you know everything

If you are the coolest one around

In good company

Only you are yourself

 Amongst poor and the elite alike

If no one is your enemy nor friend

And both have a place.

If all you know can look upon you

With equal measure,

If you are always your normal self

At all times

With a million jobs well done

Taken as theirs

You are the sun of Wisdom

My only progeny;

All is your earning

What’s most important?

You are

The only ''Human Being''