Francis Anthony Govia
Iranian scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, martyred.
One man’s death
is another man’s livelihood
One man’s happiness
is another man’s sorrow
One man’s peril
is another man’s peace
One man’s health
is another man’s disease.
What we compare
And though we may borrow
Cute statements to tell the story
Men will consider these days in retrospect
in light of what comes tomorrow.
One man’s land
is another man’s bounty
One man’s prison
is another man’s home
One man’s ocean
is another man’s battle ground
One man’s triumph
is another man’s bane.
One man’s mountain
is another man’s rubble
One man’s research
is another man’s crime
One man’s progress
is another man’s diversion
One man’s contraband
is another man’s trade.
One man’s love
is another man’s spite
One man’s fear
is another man’s challenge
One man’s passion
is another man’s irrelevance
One man’s wisdom
is another man’s folly.
One man’s hope
is another man’s distress
One man’s sleep
is another man’s wake
One man’s gun
is another man’s ploughshare
One man’s protest
is another man’s anarchy.
What we compare
And though we many borrow
Cute statements to tell the story
Men will consider these days in retrospect
in light of what comes tomorrow.
