I Do Not Fear The Dead Poem by Francis Duggan

Though of ghost stories we read of and of hauntings we hear
I do not fear the dead 'tis the living I do fear
On the radio news today I heard last night a young man lost his life
In Cruickshank Park in Footscray through foul play by knife
On his way to work on a pathway in the park
His attacker or attackers must have surprised him in the dark
He did lose his life in a most tragic way
Hope the offender or offenders for the foul crime do pay
On his way to work from the train station nearby
He received a fatal stab wound under the night sky
One in his early twenties only in his life's prime
A victim of the worst sort and the foulest crime
It was not a deceased one who murdered him in the dark
Of late evening on a pathway in Footscray's Cruickshank Park.