Francis Duggan Poems

For wars over god it is not god is to blame
Though many wars they have been fought in god's name
War is a human creation and humanity's shame
And any victory in war is a blood tainted fame
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Since any deceased person i have known have not come back to me to tell
Of these supposed to be after life places of heaven and hell
Your ideas on this supposed after life and on how people should live
Little in food for thought to me does seem to give
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For miles around bone dry every creek and bone dry every drain
And the brown and bare paddocks are thirsting for rain
It has not rained here now for many a day
And the cattle feeling the hunger are bellowing for hay
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The praises of a celebrity the impressionable masses may sing
But too much praise for the praised one may not be a good thing
For praise as the wise one so often has said
Is something that readily can go to one's head
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Memory to us most important in truth it can be said
Without this great gift we would be of the living dead
Without a past or a present and a blank future ahead
Even the thought of memory lost is a thought of dread
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A man in his mid twenties with plenty of time on his side
In love and about to make the woman he loved his young bride
In his physical prime and feeling fit and well
In decades from now to his grandchildren he would have good stories to tell
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He is not or will never be a widely known person the one who is not or will never be a threat to anyone
Of talking of self not interested or telling of the good things in life he has done
He is not a member of any club or is not interested in or plays any sport including football
So very few things in life does interest him at all
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By improving in your ways as a person you are making the World better to live in
For to be kind to others is never a sin
You will never become the most popular one in the town
By big noting yourself and verbally putting others down
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If i told you i believed in a post bodily death existence this would be a lie
Perhaps an atheist i will be till the day i do die
I have not been in a church or place of worship for many a day
Just a godless person of me some might say
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Since she is the precious jewel of his life
The jealous husband possessive of his wife
She is thirty years and he is thirty one
With a seven year old daughter and a five year old son
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