Battling The Odds Poem by Francis Duggan

Have you ever felt the emptiness within
From the feeling you are a loser that you cannot seem to win
In your life's uphill journey you are battling the odds
You believe you must be one of the children of the lesser gods
One of the people who do survive from day to day
There are many like you who do live in this way
But perseverance always does seem to pay
And hope springs eternal as some like to say
Out of work with little money and financially down
In what happens to be a high unemployment town
You have even considered of moving elsewhere
For to try out your luck in the big World out there
Life for many it is not unlike Murphy's Law
It is not meant to be easy said George Bernard Shaw.