Francis Duggan Poems

That we are born as mortals surely not a lie
And the longer you live the sooner you will die
The longest lived human life in time not a long span
On average a few years more for a woman that it is for a man
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The longest lived human life perhaps fifteen years beyond five score
But Mother Earth will live forever more
She feeds all life forms the great and the small
On land, river and sea she provides for all
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In his mid twenties and quite good in bed
Going by some of the local women who have been with Ted
It has even been said the Mayor's aging wife who with brown dye cloaks her gray
Enjoyed a few hours of passion with him believe that if you may
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Money speaks every language as some are known to say
This is how it is and always will be this way
The poor are powerless and as powerless until death does stay
And those with heaps of money in the news every day
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You may not be one of the famous or in money be worth a million or two
But you will be remembered by someone yes someone will remember you
Someone will say to his or her friends he or she was caring and kind
Such a compassionate person better would be hard to find
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In his daydreams he used to daydream of wealth and renown
The working class man of the ordinary town
Now in his mid thirties and past his life's prime
And also a few years past daydreaming time
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A half an hour walk west of the Town of Millstreet
In the old rushy fields where the rivers do meet
The wildborn pheasant is crowing today
Where the hawthorns are cloaked in their white blooms of the May
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He is from the bare brown lands where the salt bush grow
Where old Murray River towards the Pacific crawls slow
Since he left Tailem Bend he has traveled far and wide
And has shorn in many a hot shearing shed in the brown outback countryside
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My views on life to me alone only count
To others to nothing they seem to amount
My rhymes may be many but my readers are few
Though many of my sort and this is nothing new
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To the holier than thou in their judgmental way
Homophobia is always one of their fear words of the day
To them all non heterosexual people have in them something wrong
And to human society they ought not belong
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