Francis Duggan Poems

You cannot change the past 'tis gone forever
And worrying only turns your hair to gray
And remember 'tis the future's all that matter
For we cannot change what happened yesterday.
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Do not take life too seriuously as time quickly ticks away
And soon you will be older and using hair dye to cloak your gray
Few wish to know the sad faced one as some are known to say
You may as well be happy and laugh all through the day
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Unrivalled for their football skill
The great footballers of Brazil
And though they too have known of defeat
In the World Cup one of the hardest teams to beat
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Never give up on life live for as long as you can
That goes for every woman as well as every man
We only live once at life no second chance
So why not be happy and laugh, sing and dance.
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They built every City, Village, Town and Motorway
And for them there never was an easy pay
And though all is quiet in the places they lay
Their descendants the Nation builders of today.
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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.
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Some childhood memories with us seem to linger
And I recall when I was nine or so
Of seeing blue tit fly from hole in standing tree stump
One April day more than forty years ago.
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If you cannot accept me the way I am
Then kick me out your life and tell me scram
As you can't reshape the branch of full grown tree
So take me as I stand or let me be.
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They give her no credit they go to her past
Say that she was ex druggie and her new look won't last
She once worked in a brothel on sleaze side of town
And though she lives clean now they still put her down.
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Anger and jealousy are siblings both self destructive in their own way
Of the damage they give rise to we hear and read of every day
In assaults and murder and every violent sort of crime
So many people because of them in prison serving time
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