Francis Duggan Poems

The one who has wronged you is the one you wish you've never met
It is hard to forgive and as hard to forget
But an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
Is only for those who are lacking in ruth
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My better days to the forever gone
But that does not phase me i want to live on
Living in this world for as long as i can
And die without pain as a very old man
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Ants in their billions on the dry dusty ground crawl
Along with flies and skinks the only forms of life where rain never does fall
Us humans could not hope to live in a world without rain
So of wet and windy weather why do some people complain
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You will never become the most loved one in the town
If you are known as one who verbally puts others down
Some of the ruthless in material ways may know of success
But their lack of compassion many does not impress
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You struggle to cope and your moods are all black
And your nervous system from stress is under attack
But courage is a thing that you do not lack
And against the odds you do keep on fighting back
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That you've got thousands of facebook friends you don't leave us in doubt
But you'll only know who your true friends are when you are down and out
When you are short of money and your bills you've not paid
On your time of most need your true friends come to your aid
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A long way to Claraghatlea near Millstreet Town
Where Finnow from the high country winds it's way down
Through old fields a home to the rook and gray crow
On towards the Blackwater in a babbling flow
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A Town without a cricket or a football club
By the far away hills known as Boherascrub
But the two pubs there business-wise doing okay
More to life than cricket and footy it does seem this way
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From her old home in Gortavehy about three miles away
Margaret Tarrant's remains at peace forever lay
In the quietness within view of Cashman's Hill
Her kindly heart is now forever still
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Though i have penned reams and reams of doggerel
Of success stories in life i don't have for to tell
In a Human World of winners and losers as some like to say
But then i ask you what's success anyway
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