Francis Duggan Poems

You are not on your own or so it does seem
If you are one who suffer of low self esteem
There are many like you to be found everywhere
And millions of course in the big World out there
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You only can be the best that you can be
And to live in the moment would you not agree
Tomorrow is coming and yesterday has gone
And life as we know it of course will go on
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It is not about how much money you have or how long you do live
It is more about how kind you are and of how willingly you give
If you are one who lives your life in giving to receive
Then on a higher principle you are one who does believe
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I am just an ordinary man on an ordinary street
And ordinary people i only seem to meet
Full of their own self importance and self conceit
For their idea of success with each other every day they compete
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You may as well live in hope as in despair
And not much point in complaining that life is unfair
To people who have their own crosses to bear
The people without any worries are rare
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In fancy i can hear the silver back crow
On the trees near the bog where the bog cotton grow
It's harsh caws come to me from the long ago
That old memories do linger happens to be so
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Jack Reddy does not judge all women on June his ex wife
Though his twenty years of marriage to her not the happiest time of his life
He says in women like men the good and not so good you will find
Not everyone is born to be caring and kind
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We read of and hear of wars and famines in Lands far away
And the human population in numbers increasing by the day
Billions of people for our Earth Mother to feed
With millions in drought stricken areas of food aid in need
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I like birds one ought not for to get them wrong
The familiar sort anyway even by song
The flute like notes of the Aussie magpies one should not mistake
To their songs every morning of the year i do wake
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How boring we would be if on all things in life we did agree
If you on your ways were no different to me
But this cannot be since no two are the same
Though of people with similar interests many i could name
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