I Have Been Penning Rhyme Poem by Francis Duggan

I have been penning rhyme since in my life's prime
And this is going back some four decades in time
And though some do advise me for to give it away
I hope to be rhyming on my last night and day
To me just a hobby and little else more
Among rhymers i will never be one to the fore
Yet we all have some hobby mine is penning rhyme
And this in itself by law is not a crime
To write rhyme you do not need a literary degree
Anybody can do it you can have this from me
Perhaps of my compulsion to rhyme in death i will only be free
I have been penning stuff since nineteen seventy three
And perhaps i will be rhyming till the day i do die
If i did tell you different this would be a lie.