Goodbye, Good Luck Poem by Francis Duggan

Goodbye, good luck and may good fortune be with you and follow you to where-ever to you go
I did not know you well only in passing we nodded as we met and said hello
I do regret I did not get to know you better though in common we had little for to share
We all are different in our ways and thinking a fact of which I am all too aware.

Goodbye, good luck and may you always be happy and may you achieve the dreams that you pursue
And may you never know of hardship, want or suffering and may what you wish for out of life come true
You are a young man buoyed by ambition one who daydreams of great wealth and renown
You crave success in the bigger World out there for celebrity status far from your old Hometown.

At twenty years success at you is beckoning and you want to be known and admired everywhere
With local fame you never could be happy success awaits you in the World out there
The young do have their daydreams for to follow the ageing have their past for to recall
But for the billionaire as for the pauper as we do know there is a final Fall.

Goodbye, good luck I wish you joy and success though I only knew you for to say good day
I hear next week the old town you are leaving for a bigger city from here far away
Not yet in your prime your best years ahead of you and in life you seem determined to succeed
And who knows in the not too distant future of your successess we may hear of and read.