I Am Such A Lucky Fellow Poem by Francis Duggan

I am such a lucky fellow though I am not a millionaire
I could have been born in some third World Country where paupers are not rare
Slowly dying of malnutrition without a penny to my name
Where two per cent own ninety per cent of the Country's wealth and know all of the glory and the fame.

I am such a lucky fellow that's how 'twould seem to me
I have never known what it feels like to live in true poverty
I have never lived in a war zone where human life is taken cheap
Or heard the grieving bereaved for lost family members weep.

I could have been born to poor parents in a grimy slum back street
Always hungry in my childhood years with never much to eat
Become homeless in my teen years and not be alive today
I am such a lucky fellow at least I do feel that way.

I am such a lucky fellow very lucky it would seem
I could be one of those people who no longer even dream
Of ever knowing happiness some see death as not a bad thing
It is of the so called nobility that the grand poets only sing.

Many end up in refiugee camps on their journey to nowhere
Without any hope of a welcome in the bigger World out there
Compared to them I am so lucky I have no cause to complain
I've a warm house to give me shelter from the frost, wind, snow and rain.