True Greatness

You've climbed the highest mountain and swam in the roughest sea And with pride you wore the colours of your Nationality And you are a National hero street signs even have your name But in ways you seem quite ordinary despite your World wide fame. And though of your great successes singer songwriters now sing To others you feel superior and that does not seem a good thing For true greatness is far different than achieving something great And you are not truly a great person though many your name celebrate You may be a record breaker and a World renowned athlete But there is a vast difference between pride and self conceit And you are too conceited the praise to your head has gone Still on the day you die without you life on Earth it will go on. You may be a high achiever but that does not speak all of you For to the higher principles you never could be true Your ego has outgrown you and success gone to your head And that there's far more to true greatness than great achievements truer words have not been said.