Sandra Day O'Connor's Goodbye Poem

FEELING IMPORTANT

Sometime, when you are feeling important

Sometime, when your ego's in bloom,

Sometime, when you take it for granted

You're the best qualified in the room,

Sometime, when you feel that your going

Would 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 hand in it, up to the wrist,

Pull it out, and the hole that's remaining

Is a measure of how you'll be missed.

You may splash all you please when you enter,

You can stir up the water galore,

But stop, and you'll find in a minute,

That it looks quite the same as before.

The moral in this quaint example

Is to do the best you can.

Be proud of yourself, but remember,

There's no indispensable woman!

- Saxon White Kessinger