Standing high and mighty

Protecting all that’s worthy

You think of yourself so highly

In a life so full of bounty

You give but you expect return

Life’s lessons will you ever learn?

Even the toughest stones crumble

What makes you the exception?

I look at you in pity

For once you’ve sheltered me

I think I should never wonder why

You are cold, just have to stifle my cry

I hope in the end you’ll see

No one lives for himself, that’s happy

All the earthly things you have

Can never buy true and pure love

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You might not need anyone now

For you can fend well for yourself somehow

But when walls start cracking and moss begins to overwhelm

That’s when you’ll realize how you lived in the earth’s hem

You stand astute and cold

Thinking you’d never get old

Treating everyone so bold

In stone you were absolutely mould

The fortress remains firm and mighty

With signs of wear and tear

Soon forty decades in brooding existence

I hope before you end, you experience a life with sense.