The One Who Is Different Poem by Francis Duggan

To the one who is different none does drink a toast
Not one the local community of wish to boast
Anti gun and anti war not the sort one could look on as a friend
Since the Country his type would not fight to defend
The town's war parades he does never attend
For to defend our hard earned freedom on him one could not depend
He never wears the Country's colours or waves the national flag
And does not feel the sacrifice of our young men in war is worth a national brag
We do not need in our Country the instigators of change
Since they are unpatriotic and in their thinking strange
The one to most others different is one of the marginalized of the town
One who will never reach the status of even local renown
Anti gun and anti war he lacks in national pride
He never attends our war parades to honour our brave in wars who have died.