Some time when you’re feeling important
Some time when your ego’s in bloom
Some time when you take it for granted
You’re the best qualified man in the room
Some time when you feel you are going to
leave an unfillable hole
Just follow this simple instruction
And see how it humbles your soul
Take a bucket and fill it with water
Put your hands in it up to your wrists
Pull them out………and the hole that remains
Is the measure of how much you’ll be missed!
You may splash all you please when you enter
You may stir up the water galore
But stop, and you’ll find in a minute
That it looks just the same as before
The moral of this is quite simple
Do just the best that you can
Be proud of yourself but remember:
There is no indispensable man.
Walter Harrison Labour MP mid 70’s pinned this poem up for his colleagues in Westminster written by Saxon White Kessinger in 1959 addressed
“To all and sundry”