Builder Upper or Breaker Downer;

I saw them tearing a building down,
a group of men in a busy town.

With a hefty blow and a lusty yell,
They swung with zest,
and the sidewall fell.
I asked the foremen,
“are these men skilled?

The kind you would hire,
if you had to build?”

He looked at me, and laughed,
“no, indeed!

Unskilled labor is all I need.
Why, they can wreck in a day or two,
What has taken builders years to do.”

I asked myself, as I went my way,
which of these roles have I tried to play?

Am I a builder with rule and square,
measuring and constructing with skill and care?

Or am I the wrecker, who runs the town,
content with the business of tearing down?

By: Charles Benvegar