At The Expense Of Others Poem by Francis Duggan

At The Expense Of Others



At the expense of others he likes to have a joke
One might say he is quite an ordinary bloke
In his early twenties with time on his side
He may yet learn you do not earn respect if others you deride.

The difference between having fun with and mockery he has yet to discern
But he is young yet in time he may learn
Though I know a few in their eighties who are as immature as he
From life some do not learn or so 'twould seem to me.

It would seem that his brain can't keep up with his tongue
But he may learn yet there is hope for the young
The praises of his type few bother to sing
For to laugh at but not with is not a nice thing.

He may yet learn from life one can hope he may
Though I do know people who are old and gray
Who laugh at but not with for people in their life's Fall
From living 'twould seem they've learned little at all

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