The Hard Working Fellow Was Buried Today Poem by Francis Duggan

In his working life for him never an easy pay
The hard working fellow was buried today
A victim of cancer he lived for forty one years
His wife and two teenage daughters at his graveside in tears.

As human life go his was not a long span
The hard working fellow a good family man
He always did have a big smile on his face
In the lives of his family none to take his place.

He did not live on to grow bald old and gray
After a year of great suffering at peace he now lay
Many who knew and loved him of his passing said
He had already suffered too much and is better off dead.

To his gift of life to the end he did cling
The hard working fellow has lived his last Spring
He will not be seen in the flesh in his neighbourhood again
But amongst family and friends good memories of him will remain.