Francis Duggan Poems

Since for it I never receive money for pay
I have been advised by some for to give rhyming away
But compared to their big dreams in life mine are so small
And money it does not interest me at all
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Some former presidents and prime ministers on political and current affairs love to have their say
It is so hard for them to give their power away
To the leaders of the current government they offer unsolicited advice
Free media publicity for this is their price
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He is short on money and feeling quite sad
And he does feel that life has been treating him bad
The praises of life at present he does not sing
But he forgets that life does not owe anyone anything
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Life goes so quickly beyond our physical prime
Eventually we all do run out of time
The longest lived life in time not a long span
So do try to live for as long as you can
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Out there by the brown hills from here far away
In unmarked graves the bones of Australia's first people does lay
The people who believed to the land they belong
And who is to say in their beliefs they were wrong
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From life every day we do learn something new
In this respect I am not one of a few
From life's book new lessons for us every day
We never stop learning it does seem this way
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Some easier to get on with than others happens to be so
But few go through life without making a foe
And it is not unusual that a grudge in the mind can escalate
In the one with the grudge to feelings of hate
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There are verbal bullies in every town
Who abuse their power over others and put them down
And with them play mind games and their confidence undermine
On their interaction with their subordinates too often they cross the line
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You only can be the best that you can be
Though some with this may well choose to disagree
Though some better than you when you were put to the test
How could you do better than doing your best
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Apart from them I have seemed for to grow
Gone from my life the friends I used to know
Were I to meet them today things between us would not be the same
Absence for this perhaps would be to blame
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