Francis Duggan Poems

When all who live now to the reaper have gone
The Goddess of Nature will be living on
Like the Seasons the generations of people they come and they go
But Nature's own Goddess of death will never know,
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You tell me your God is the only God and that your God is great
And against those who worship others Gods you discriminate
And you condemn the non believing infidel
To suffer with Satan forever in hell,
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Of an Earthly Utopia all hope has not gone
The dream of peace and freedom from hunger it is living on
The flower of peace though not blooming it has not yet died
And the dream of Utopia cannot be destroyed
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You feel the World's against you and your cross heavy to bear
And of future hopes of happiness you do live in despair
But your true friends will stand by you when hope from your life seems gone
And they will do the best they can to help you to keep keeping on,
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If i should die tomorrow and today my second last day
I should not be complaining since in life I've done okay
Never had to try to sleep hungry with the hard ground for a bed
And in all my years of living never once wished i were dead,
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Today is a scorcher some forty degrees
And heat in the sunshine and the warm breeze
The bullants are crawling on the sunbaked ground
And the paddocks so bare and so dry all around
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Goodbye to the friends that i knew in the past
For few things in life ever do seem to last
In my flights of fancy i see them again
I meet them in my walks back memory lane,
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He was a champion athlete when he was in his prime
But now his face is wrinkled the mark of father time
The years have left him weary and silver gray his hair
His best years are behind him he seems the worst for wear
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In the bare and dry paddocks the windblown dust is flying
And the juvenile magpies to their mother for food they are crying
The creek has stopped flowing the drain is bone dry
And the last heavy rain we had was in July
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We build up World wide known celebrities
We give them their fame and renown
And when we find them overbearing
We then try for to drag them down.
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