Beginnings

If you're rich and famous

you could be excused for

having tickets on yourself

you get accustomed to a certain lifestyle

and eventually you forget

that you started as a seed.

Empires rise and fall and

at their height where kings rule

and riches are stored to collect the dust

from the ground bones of slaves and servants

it is easy to forget that

from the dust you were created.

To be honest it matters not

how high you rise

nor what riches you accumulate

be they material or intellectual

what matters is that you be

humble from the beginning.