Beyond the end

I began at my beginning
But I'll do my best not to end at my end
This world will soon outlast me
There will still be a future to defend

So let me leave a legacy
Not of wealth and gold
But of selfless acts of kindness
And of tales to be told

I hope that in my studies
I advance what we know a little
I hope I built people up
Rather than trying to belittle

I hope that with my poems
I can raise a spirit that's in need
That the words I'm writing now
Can build and they can breed

So that all that I have done
And all that I will ever do
Will maybe inspire someone
And that someone could be you

For a legacy is grand to tell the tale of a man
But it's best when it invests in a new story, if it can