Francis Duggan Poems

Even for the words to describe your predicament you are stuck
Without any money and down on your luck
When you are at your lowest you are on your own
Where are they when you need them the friends you have known?
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The harsh grating cries of white sulphur crested cockatoos
And the familiar voices of the dark brown weerloos
In the high wooded country from here far away
If only in fancy i am back there today
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Since like them one day i am destined to die
Are the creatures i eat less mortals than i
Many of them die young to feed us whilst we multiply
Does right to life only to the human kind Apply?
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Great empires do rise and great empires do fall
And the greats of human history left to historians to recall
But no act of kindness is ever too small
For it is true about love that it does conquer all
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In your ways and your thinking you seem different from me
And on that we are very different i have to agree
We seem to have little in common to share
But between people this not unusual or not even rare
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Though you have plenty of things for to worry about
Worries in your life you are better off without
Since worry like weeds can grow out of control
And on your mental and physical health take it's toll
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I am in my mid sixties with little money to my name
But for that i only have myself for to blame
I had my money making opportunities but i left them go by
In some ways i feel a failure that i will not deny
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A troubled old World the Human World of today
News of war and mass death by violence from lands far away
In war zones where many are maimed for life and many die young
Their remains in mass graves the forgotten unsung
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In St Brigid's at Crossley it is candles by candle light
Where the old church does echo to the strains of Silent Night
And other famous Christmas songs that refuse to fade away
On a pleasant December evening four sleeps from Christmas Day
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Through d n a samples extinct species will live again some scientists do say
But any heed to such a theory i for one do not pay
Human thinking too has borders it does seem this way
The dodo is long dead and as dead it will stay
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