Francis Duggan Poems

Some people crimes against them are able to forgive
Whilst others all of their lives with their grudges do live
And hatred like a cancer in the mind it does grow
And quenches the bright light of the inner glow
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Since respect must go both ways would you not agree
I struggle to respect those who do not respect me
Those who see me as inferior to them in every way
Respect to them i do find it quite hard for to pay
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The past in the real sense in the forever gone
But in the memory of your mind it is living on
Your life's good and bad memories with you do stay
And will be with you till your last night and day
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Though from life you feel you are not receiving what is your due
That everybody is good at something does happen to be true
A World of winners and losers is a human created thing
And only of the wealthy and celebrated and the seen as successful the praises of others do sing
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Men do not mine for brown coal in Wonthaggi today
In what was a hard way for to earn one's pay
Many decades ago young men to work in the mines migrated to there from Lands far away
Where many of them married and raised their children and grew old and gray
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It is not your Nationality or skin color of black, white or brown
Or if you live in the poor or the wealthy side of the town
It is the sort of values that reside in your mind
You cannot live as a good person if you are not compassionate and kind
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In my visualizations old friends i do meet
As i walk on the streets in the Town of Millstreet
And since i have last seen them they have not aged a day
In my mental images of them as they were they do stay
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High above the scrub he sing as he fly
Like a musical speck in the grey of the sky
Which brings back old memories to me from far away
When i heard his kind singing in the prime of the May
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In his mid twenties the always well dressed young Fred
One can say of him that he is choicely bred
His dad is a doctor and his mum is as well
Of his pedigree without asking to you he will tell
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And what if i only do pen doggerel
Since of life i too have my own stories to tell
Though i cannot say i have been there and done that
I have worked in a pipeline crew near Ballarat
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