October The Twenty-Eighth

Criticism

Somehow I've always noticed, and no doubt you've noticed too,
It's a funny world to live in, and no matter what you do
You're criticized by many and there's not a single chance
Of pleasing everybody under any circumstance.

This pleasing game's a dandy, you may try your level best
To satisfy and gratify and meet with every test
That ever yet has been designed and when at last you're through,
You'll find you're always criticized no matter what you do.

For instance, you have seen the man who makes a great success -
And yet he's always criticized and censured more or less;
And then the failure you've observed, he gets it just the same,
He's criticized and ostracized because he lost the game.

And so it kind o' seems to me, the world is rather queer,
You get it if you do or don't the while you're living here;
But at the journey's end there's hope if you can only wait,
For on the day you're laid away they all will say you're great!

-- Frank Cableton Nelson