We Do Have Some Choices Poem by Francis Duggan

Because he was overfond of the beer
His wife took the children and left him last year
His children raised by another man
Far from here in distant Japan.

We do have some choices in life
He put his pub mates before his children and wife
She grew tired of living in poverty
And she found one far better than he.

Her new husband he is Japanese
And her he is willing to please
As a brother to her five year old twin girls she bore him a boy
And a better life now she enjoy.

After work he goes to the pub at night
And the home he goes to is dark and quiet
Though as much you will not hear him say
For his mistakes he has been made to pay.

On the twenty fourth day of May
He had his twenty sixth birthday
The grog to him is a poor friend
But 'tis not too late for him for his ways to mend.