Francis Duggan Poems

Life was not meant to be easy from the pen of George Bernard Shaw
That we should always be happy is not part of natural law
We have our good and our bad days us human beings are designed in this way
Though that some are far happier than others only seems true for to say
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Many without love in them with compassion not blessed
With power and it's trappings they do seem obsessed
The narcissistic people of the Human World of today
Love has passed them by it does seem this way
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To any man Sue never was a wife
And she does not have children of her own to talk of in her life
But in her years as a nursing sister she had so much love to give
And many of her ex patients with fondness will remember her for as long as they live
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Since i am a fellow from a far away Land
Their culture and ways how could i understand
They had lived in their Country for thousands of years
Before my kind took from them their land and paid for it in tears
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For love of the national flag and patriotic pride
By far too many young men in wars have died
They did not live on for to grow old and gray
For their patriotism and bravery with their lives they did pay
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The black mood is something of many do know
It darkens the brightness of the inner glow
It is something that some have had to live with for years
The mood that suppress laughter and give rise to tears
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The best human friendships can be fickle why otherwise pretend
But you treat your dog well and he or she will remain as your friend
For in your dog you do have a friend that is true
Your dog until death remains as a friend to you
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I am not a fan of the word known as wow
To me it sounds less pleasant than the bellow of a cow
It is not a word that is sweet music to my brain
Why this is does seem beyond me to explain
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Since he often tells stories of his travels in the big World out there
He is locally known as old Joe of elsewhere
In the local pub he is well liked and well known
One can say of Joe in a class of his own
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Of friends our Earth Mother does need more us humans take from her and in return to her little give
Though she is the one who does feed us off of the food she grows for us we do live
Yet some of our kind very greedy and only know of how to receive
What we do to the Earth that does feed us we do to ourselves i believe
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