You Will Hang In There Poem by Francis Duggan

Your World all around you is crumbling and nothing for you is going right
And times on you getting much harder and life is a hard uphill fight
But it is not nor it won't be your last time that you've been at war with despair
And this time for you is no different I know that you will hang in there.

You hung in there the day your daughter Julie died and through her grief supported Julie's mother Anna your wife
And the day Anna this world departed you did not give up on your life
No you hung in there like the brave soldier who refuses to cower though under fire
And others see you as courageous and the bravery in you they admire.

The battles of life on you telling and the years on you starting to show
And you not a shadow of the man that you were three decades ago
You've carried life's crosses and sorrows and you've earned all of your gray hair
But you've proven you are not a quitter and when the going gets tough you hang in there.

If I knew the crosses that you'd known I think I would lay down and die
I don't think that I have it in me for to say I'll give life one more try
But you are one who is so noble you've battled the Gods of despair
And though you don't feel well at present I know that you will hang in there.