Francis Duggan Poems

The football club's best and fairest when he was in his prime
But eventually we all become victims of time
The legs that did run fast are now walking slow
The seasons of life on him are beginning to show
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I stand for the people who are hard done by life
For the homeless person and the battered wife
For the political prisoner and the refugee
I am what i think that is all i can be
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Since red is the blood we do shed when we bleed
Of racism and xenophobia humanity is not in need
Some people in their thinking do seem quite small
Since they do not believe on a fair go for all
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Fading memories are all that now with him remain
Of faces and places he will not see again
In nineteen fifty six with his parents he came to this Country as a young refugee
The last time his Homeland of Hungary he did see
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A dangerous creature with death in it's smile
And known to eat humans the adult crocodile
Those who swim where they live with death choose to dice
Even the thought of such an end to your life is not nice
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We all cannot be happy and bubbly and bright
And in our community a leading light
And wealthy and popular in every way
Few of us near to perfect as some like to say
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The Winter morning air in it did have a cold chill
A few hours before a gray dawn did break above Clara Hill
A bang on a doorway Kamar the cry rang out
You are coming with us the emigration officials did shout
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Like most birds and animals we defend our borders that's how it seems to me
For to live where we would like to there is none of us free
I pity the homeless the displaced and the refugee
How lonely and so hard life for them must be
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By some people the word called revenge is mentioned every day
In some sort of context or is some sort of a way
Some take their revenge through the law in the law court
And revenge can even seem sweet for a defeat in sport
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I have never harmed anyone of which i am aware
So what others say of me why should i much care
I have been referred to by numbers which caused me slight offense
But than take this to heart i do have far more sense
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