‘ I CAN’T’

How I love to say ‘I can’t’
Believe me, I am but an ordinary man
I leave to cohorts of supermen
Each brave and strong to proclaim ‘I can’.

How light is my burden
So well it does serve me
The more I say ‘I can’t’
The more I am set free.

This is a world of ‘ I can’ and ‘we can’
Hear, hear the voices of leaders out there
Joined by the sea of chorus of the mindless crowd
In the noisy and greedy market-place---where

  Quick exchanges are made
  And money and power hold relentless sway
  But I remain unmoved,  one who is naïve enough
  To cling to his home-made credo—‘ I can’t’ -be anyone’s prey’.