Francis Duggan Poems

You may be a big company director in your chauffeur driven car
But to life's reaper it does not matter of how wealthy you are
For you billionaire there is no hiding from the one who wields the scythe of death
The one who is the great equalizer eventually cuts from all the living breath
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How pleasant for to hear the male curlew sing
Above the moorland in the prime of the Spring
The male sings his beautiful flute like territorial and courtship song
Such beauty that to Nature does only belong
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Long before time it did become my foe
In Ireland where i lived a long time ago
Of some of their habits i did get to know
Jackdaws a small breed of Eurasian crow
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Success can be relative would you not agree
But you can only be the best that you can be
Leave it to others for their ideas of success to compete
In life you have your own challenges for to meet
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Though on the wrong side of the social divide
They can feel proud of themselves the working class people Worldwide
Since they are the builders and souls of every village, city and town
In the working class struggles stories of renown
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Many kilometres north of his home country town
Feeling depressed and financially down
And feeling homesick for his home far away
Though as poor in the poor suburb he will stay
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Are you one who believes in life after death
That your soul will leave your body when you draw your last breath
And from Planet Earth unseen in wings fly
To a beautiful Land somewhere beyond the sky
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Their appearance and voice to their identity a give away
Parrots i know of but do not see every day
Gray mottled brown birds males with red around the head and face
The female the plain one which in birds is often the case
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A beautiful evening of around twenty degrees
With only the slightest of a sea breeze
Blowing above the paddocks bare, dry and brown
In the coastal countryside close to Koroit Town
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Many of Australia's first people live in dire poverty
They are not receiving a fair go is how it seems to be
On saying that indigenous Australian millionaires are in the few
Is not saying anything that is in any way new
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