Francis Duggan Barriers Poems

The passing years has wiped most of his memory
As well as leaving him looking weary, old and gray
But his ageing wife she lovingly cares for him
And she tells him that she loves him every day.
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The barriers of class distinction have never stood firmer 'twould seem
And of what it might feel to be wealthy so many don't bother to dream
The social gap it keeps on widening between the well off and the poor
And the middle class too doing nicely and very financially secure.
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Though in public between people they like to differentiate
The people that many look up to and celebrate
Racist in their public utterances they spread their message of hate
And divisions between people they only help to create
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