The Man in the Mirror

Let me start on my friend Prem's birthday...w ith a poem I read in the recent times that I loved and that I think he'd love reading too...

Man in the Mirror

When you get what you want in your struggles for self

And the world makes you king for a day:

Then go to the mirror and look at yourself,

And see what that man has to say.

For it isn’t a man’s father, mother or wife

Whose judgement upon him must pass?

The fellow whose verdict counts most in his life,

Is the man staring back from the glass?

He’s the fellow to please: never mind all the rest,

For he’s with you clear up to the end:

And you’ve passed your most dangerous, difficult test

If the man in the glass is your Friend.

You can fool the whole world down the pathway of years,

And get pats on the back as you pass:

But your final reward will be heartache and tears

If you’ve cheated the Man in the Glass

-poet unknown