Your Value Will Always Depend on Others’ Values

You were never a good soldier.
You were never the best teammate.
You were thoughtful and comical
And mostly considerate, but

Whenever you could ditch, you ditched.
So what is your use to us now?
In the ruins, where we remain,
A voice from the ditch is as good

As any from the mountaintop,
But the people of the future,
So long as there are such people,
Will have only their own concerns.

To them, your value will consist
In how you address those concerns.