I watched them tearing a building down, a gang of men in a busy town.
With a heave ho and a lusty yell, they swung a beam and a side-wall fell.
I asked the builder are these men skilled and the men you’d hire if you were to build?
He gave a laugh and said, “No indeed, unskilled labor is all I need.
They can easily wreck in a day or two, what builders have taken a year to do.”
And I thought to myself as I went my way, which of these roles have I opted to play?
Am I a builder who builds with care, measuring life by rule and square?
Patiently doing the best I can, ordering things to a well-made plan?
Or am I a workman that walks the town content with the “labor” of tearing down?
Author Unknown