Were You Ever Poem by Francis Duggan

Were you ever at a gathering where you felt out of place
Where your inhibitions you were forced to face
Where inferior feelings surfaced in your mind
And that more comfortable surroundings for you would not be hard to find
The great artists whose works adorn the art gallery wall
Perhaps in such surroundings would not feel happy at all
Among many of the admirers of their work it would seem to me
That they might feel out of place in such snobbish company
A different world now that the world that they lived in then
Perhaps many of those artists were down to earth women and men
Who in life received little recognition and died almost strangers to fame
With little if any money or worldly possessions to name
I must be feeling insecure and inhibited for feeling this way
But we are what we are as some do like to say.