One Must Pity Those Who Cannot Love Poem by Francis Duggan

One must pity those who cannot love of happiness they are bereft
As children their gift of love stolen from them and bitterness in it's place left
By callous and unloving parents any love in their young years to them not shown
And how can you learn to love someone if love in your life you've not known.

One must pity the poor unloved children in life they do not have a fair go
Into loving and kind and caring adults they do not have the chance for to grow
By circumstance of birth luck against them in life they must battle the odds
One can only feel so sorry for them the children of the Lesser Gods.

The children who are born to good parents are lucky so lucky indeed
By circumstance of birth advantaged their ticket in life to succeed
To be loved in their young years so lucky for love in us all there's a need
You cannot expect a good food crop if you do not care for the seed.

One must pity those who cannot love if in their young years love they never knew
And of their type there are so many I am not talking here of a few
The poor homeless kids of the city their dysfunctional parents in jail
The luck of life's draw is against them they have been set up for to fail.