Just Who Am I?
by Dennis Ricks (Nov 12, 2011)
I’ve often been labeled an optimist.
That’s better than being a pessimist.
But when life’s bad days come their way,
I’m really a positive pragmatist.
My employees think I’m a capitalist,
Republicans call me a socialist,
I think the poor should have much more,
But please do not call me a communist.
My mother would call me a scientist.
My kids think I’m more of a futurist.
But when at night I see the sky,
I can’t help but become a cosmologist.
My father would call me an atheist,
My wife thinks of me as an ethicist,
Just who am I? Until I die—
I’ll think of myself as a Humanist.