If In Hope You Keep Faith Poem by Francis Duggan

To you good tidings will come if in hope you keep faith
For the turn of luck comes to all of those who do wait
Those who laugh last laugh loudest as some like to say
The hard times will fade to a far better day
Those who in their lives seem to have lost their way
If in hope they keep faith things for them will turn out okay
But if you lose hope you cannot hope to win
And failure your lot when you throw the towel in
If you feel that life to you is quite unfair
Then you are embracing the ghost of despair
Such negative feelings bound to drag you down
Who wants for to live as a sad sack of the town
If in hope you keep faith good times of you ahead
But failure your lot if hope in you is dead.