Francis Duggan Poems

If there is a god that god is for everyone
And not for the billionaires and their daughter and son
Or not for the elite sports people of the town
Feeling superior in the glow of their public renown
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Don't give up on life though you are feeling down
An ageing poor bloke on the poor side of the town
Forsaken by your adult children and your ageing ex wife
Who now has a far younger man in her life
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Before the baby walks the baby does crawl
In this respect what applies to one applies to all
Including the child of the monarch and the child born into poverty
Part of our Human Nature would you not agree
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The temperature quite close to forty degrees
And warmth in the sunshine and warmth in the breeze
In the mostly blue sky just a few clouds of gray
It is warm so warm in the Moyne Shire today
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What of this purchase how much for it did you pay
It is all about money in the Human World of today
How much are you paid weekly in the job you work in
Those living on low incomes few friends can hope to win
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I have lived through many a Season since i left west of Millstreet Town
On a cold evening in early December with the wintery rain drizzling down
Way back in the mid nineteen eighties i do feel much older today
Time leaves everyone looking older and this is only true to say
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In flat coastal shallow lakes them sometimes you will see
Wild ducks not familiar to many and not familiar to me
With fleshy lobes under bill and pink around ears and overall brown mottled gray
Birds i know of and have seen but do not see every day
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The years have left me ageing balding and gray
But of Nature i learn something new every day
Yes every day of her i learn something new
For to say this i am not one of a few
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Known as The Dog Woman she aged in the graceful way
She never used hair dye to hide her wrinkles or hair dye to cloak her gray
Her husband long deceased their only offspring their daughter a grandmother with her husband in the U S of A
One she had not seen for many a day
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From their bouts of melancholia medication only a temporary release
People with clinical depression are on the increase
In the twenty first century of the internet and the Iphone
Many with clinical depression face life's challenges alone
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