We Are From Quite Different Backgrounds Poem by Francis Duggan

We are from quite different backgrounds and of a different lifestyle we know
And when we meet we don't hold conversation just a courteous
good day or hello,
Our social lives are very different in high class restaurants he dine
And I often eat at McDonalds and drink only cheap ale or wine.

'Tis said birds of a feather flock together with those words I cannot disagree
Our friends with us have much in common that's how it does seem to me
A person interested in greyhound or horse racing seldom pals around with fans of football
Each to their own sounds very truthful and surely that applies to all.

Bureaucrats and Working class people with each other do not pal around
And one can feel sure that in a Royal palace the Homeless are not to be found,
Money, religion, nationality and culture are things that are known to divide
And between the haves and the have nots the social gap it keeps growing wide.

We are from quite different backgrounds and different in every way
When we meet we don't hold conversation we merely say hello or good day
His social group I'll never be part of though of him nothing ill I can say
To me we are all only mortals we die and our remains decay