Do you Build or Destroy?

I watched them tear a building down,
a gang of men in a busy town.
With a mighty heave and a lusty yell,
they swung a boom and a side wall fell.
I said to the foremen,"Are these men as skilled,
as the men you would hire if you had to build?"
He gave a laugh and said, "No indeed,
just a common laborer is all I need.
And I can wreck in a day or two,
what it took the builder a year to do."
And I thought to myself as I walked away,
just which of these roles have I tried to play?
Am I a builder who works with care,
measuring life by the rule and square?
Or am I a wrecker as I walk the town,
content with the labor of tearing down?

~ author unknown ~