Francis Duggan Poems

There is nobody perfect as most would agree
But some are nearer to perfect than others is how it seems to be
That perfection is something anyone cannot achieve
Is obviously clear and easy to believe
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So lucky the people who are not well known
One can say of them they have lives of their own
None for to applaud them and none to drag them down
As they live their quiet lives on their side of the town
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Those who to speak the truth for some personal reason are quite uninclined
Condemn themselves to live with guilt of the mind
A guilt from them that will not go away
For as long as their hidden truth with them will stay
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The day was warm and sunny with scarcely any breeze
He stood out of the sunshine in the cool shade of the trees
A dark, brown eyed man trim and athletic looking well over two metres tall
The white people standing near him to say the least seemed small.
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The negative people in your life you have met
Are the people that you would prefer to forget
And though the past has gone some things from it we regret
Of what was and has been why bother to fret,
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You may not be the popular one of the town
And even live as a stranger to local renown
But you are one of those who does give to receive
And on a fair go for all you do believe
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As for all other life forms the same for you and I
All of us humans are born to eventually die
We are only mortals but Nature lives on
And new life replaces those to time who have gone
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On a dark laneway by a disused factory doorway out of sight
Some mother's young daughter is dying tonight
Prostate on the cold hard concrete near her life's journey's end
From an overdose of narcotics alone without a rend
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Flowing through Duhallow on towards Mallow Town
Old River Blackwater in flood waters of brown
Swollen by streams and rivers from the higher ground
The countryside flooded for kilometers around
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For their love of home them I can only admire
To see other lands they do feel no desire
Beyond their homeplace or hometown no wish for to live elsewhere
Or even travel for awhile in the big World out there
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