In your final moment of introspect,
  When you stare death straight in his sullen eyes,
Shall you look back on your life and reflect,
  Or be overwhelmed by your own demise?
Did you help make the world a better place?
  Can you lift up your banner at long length?
Or shall you lower your head in disgrace?
  Did you work with all your might, mind, and strength,
Or squander your spirit in idle waste?
  Did you complain about your unfair lot,
Or through your difficulties wisdom seek?
  Did you make decisions with undo haste?
Did you oppose the cruel, and defend the weak?
  Or taint your honor with ignoble thought?
Did you satiate your most sordid need,
  Or seek a creed of moral distinction?
Did you set service and love as your goal,
  Or endeavor for selfishness and greed?
Did you save a species from extinction?
  Ease the suffering of a single soul?
Did you struggle for truth and never cease,
  Or did you perpetuate fallacy?
Did you fight for justice, to right all wrong?
  Did you strive with all your being for peace,
Or was violence your only legacy?
  Did you succor heavy hearts with your song?
Was existence a virtue or a crime?
  In life, what did you do for human kind,
That might warrant a line of gentle verse?
  Assess your effort while you still have time.
In your passing what did you leave behind?
  Oh, what did you do for the universe?

~Daniel F Mitchell