Company Limited

A variety of companies

Some limited and unlimited,

What’s your point I hear you ask,

To the following I was spirited.

We hear about companies

And some tell of corporations,

Establishments and institutes

Small and huge organizations.

But however big they get

There will be a major regret:

Regarding time, grasp and strength

Their limits are set.

They are managed by humans

And by humans with limits

Those three factors in verse three

For a moment we will visit.

Time, grasp and strength

The limits of which I speak

And for every human being

There is a very rapid leak.

A company that’s unlimited

Should be seen as a farce,

Regarding unlimited possibilities:

Such are really quite sparse.

Take for example time:

A commodity we can never define,

We plan as though we have it all

But we do so with a fixed timeline.

Regarding time we never know

Just how little or how much,

In any given company it is limited

And should be treated as such.

If only we had the time

We could do anything,

Such is the oft-repeated song

Which lots of people sing.

  

But time is never ours

And though we use it as we like,

It is particularly limited

And that is the human plight.

Grasp is another commodity

Which we cannot define,

We tend to think otherwise

Given the heights to which we climb.

But grasp too is limited

Regarding how far we may go

That commodity too is set

Sooner or later we find this is so.

If only we had the time

That would take care of our grasp

But even with these two

Something else just wouldn’t last.

It is strength that I speak of

As fleeting as the other two,

A cap has been place on each of us

Meaning me, and also you.

Our strength generally wanes

That is an everyday fact,

Sooner or later it will go entirely

And that will be that.

It cannot be “company unlimited”

When such commodities are set

But a company that is limited

No wonder we quarrel and fret.

The greatest asset of any company

Is certainly the human mind

And over time it is clear to see

Both grasp and strength will decline.

Company Limited now you see

Refers to you and also me

And anything that we humans build

Carries a limited expectancy.

Stewart Russell © January 2019