An Ex Refugee Poem by Francis Duggan

Fading memories are all that now with him remain
Of faces and places he will not see again
In nineteen fifty six with his parents he came to this Country as a young refugee
The last time his Homeland of Hungary he did see

In life he has been through the good times and bad
Two times a father and three times a grand-dad
On his sixty ninth year the one to him most dear
His beloved wife died of cancer last year

His beautiful soulmate his devoted wife
Faithful to him till her last breath of life
Loving and kind in her ways the light of goodness on her shone
And without her love and support he has to live on

From his Homeland of Hungary from here far away
The passing of time has left him looking gray
He came here with his parents when he was fifteen
The last of his homeland he ever had seen.