My Aged Neighbor Poem by Francis Duggan

Since only the good in everyone he does see
My aged neighbor is a better person than me
Respect to all others and their opinions he does show
One can say of him that he has the inner glow
Of the one who does not differentiate between race, color and creed
One can say is a very good person indeed
Of anyone he never has unkind things to say
I only do wish that i could be this way
Without children or a wife he lives on his own
And though in his eighty eight years of living an easy life he has not known
He always seems happy one without a care
Nowadays people like he is to say the least rare
On how he lives as a person there is a lesson for us all
Compared to him in ways i do seem quite small.