Francis Duggan Poems

To lose to Kerry's best with honor in any grade of gaelic football is never a disgrace
And though for Millstreet in the Munster junior club final there will not be a place
Their fans and players will remember the year of twenty fourteen
For it was a great year for the gold and the green
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The social gap widening it does seem this way
And for many life is a battle every day
Millions of people are homeless and hungry tonight
Survival for them it is an uphill fight
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In the quiet old cemetery in view of the hill
The silence profound in the wintry chill
Where the bones of the long deceased ancestors of the locals lay
Though their influences live on in their descendants today
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Of those who do not trust anyone it would be fair to suppose
That in their own thinking they surround themselves with foes
For if on the trustworthiness of anyone you do not believe
Then mistrust in return is all that you can expect to receive
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Of their love of their Country so many do brag
And with pride they do wave their national flag
But nationalism and patriotism to war often does lead
Stories of war heroes many like to hear of and read
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We are only mere mortals why otherwise pretend
Like all other life forms for us there is an end
Whatever we achieve in life we are born to die
The same for the celebrity as for you and i
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I remember Dan Gould as an ageing man
He was then in the twilight of his lifetime span
He lived near Millstreet Town up the Cloghoula way
The passing of time had left him looking gray
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A comfortable home to live in and enough to eat and drink is all anyone need
And having this said the unhappy billionaire is a poor one indeed
The happy go lucky their needs in life small
There is truth in the saying one cannot have it all
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I am not a bad person though in my ways a bit odd
And i do not have much money and i do not have a god
As many in the World do for to kneel to and pray
Call me an agnostic or an atheist or call me what you may
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The Liberal-National Government of Victoria led by Premier Denis Napthine the State Election has lost
Suppose all good things in life for all who receive them eventually come at some cost
Daniel Andrews and the Labor Party and their supporters are celebrating tonight
In politics as in all things in life for the losers dejection and for the winners delight
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