The Fringe Dweller Poem by Francis Duggan

Community he does not subscribe to and any social gathering he never does attend
Even his neighbors treat him as a stranger the man who does not have a friend
One can say that he is a loner to a tribe he does not belong
Yet he never seems surly or moody and about him there is nothing wrong

Sports and politics does not interest him on t v he never watches football
With the majority of the locals he has little in common at all
He is one who loves our Earth Mother and of her ways so much he does know
If you mention to him human abuse of the natural environment the sadness in his face does show

In his early forties one without children he does not have regrets in life
And he is not one to hold grudges not even against his ex wife
She now is the wife of a neighbor and every-time he sees her he bids her good day
He is not one for harboring grudges though she did hurt him in a cruel way

The things that he finds most interesting are Global Warming and Climate Change
The one different in thinking to most others by many is looked on as strange
One of a social fringe dwelling minority yet he knows every species of bird by the song it does sing
He does live his life in his own way the fellow who does his own thing.