Francis Duggan Poems

One only can live to be good as one can
Live to be a better person a woman or man
And help anybody of your help in need
You are sowing the seeds of good Karma in your every good deed
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Three score and ten years the average human life span
On average a few more years for a woman than for a man
Our Seasons pass quickly until our last Fall
In reality seventy years does not seem long at all
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Yesterday's gone make the most of today
The happy go lucky laugh their cares away
A lonely person the sad sack of the town
Few wish to know of you when you are feeling down
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I am not a muslim or hindi, christian, buddhist or jew
I am not of a religion though not one of a few
Since there are some of my sort to be found everywhere
And living in every land in the big World out there
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It has been some five months with six years and a score
Since i last saw the road from Millstreet to Rathmore
And though in the past this is a good span of time
Even back then i was well past my life's prime
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How old is this Country would anyone know
This old coastal country where Merri waters flow
In and out of Lake Pertobe it slowly winds it's way
And on to the Pacific at Lady Bay
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I rhyme not for the love of wealth and fame
Or that mine would become a celebrated name
I only rhyme because i love to rhyme
I have been penning stuff since i was in my life's prime
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Not a good place to rent or buy a house in Thuggery Street
A bloke who lived there for a few years i often do meet
Tells me his few years there were an Earthly Hell
Of life there he does not have good stories to tell
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Of my political preferences i make others aware
But of who Governs the Country why should i much care
Since the major political parties in their policies seem similar indeed
And they will not be helping those of helping in need
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Though with you in your financial problems i have some sympathy to spare
I have my own financial worries and of them quite a share
If i die tomorrow the State to bury me may have to pay
But then i will be dead and past all cares anyway
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