We Choose Our Own Friends Poem by Francis Duggan

We choose our own friends and we make our own foes
And having said that such is life i suppose
And with our own thoughts our reality we create
And old father time for us never does wait.

Our own pathways through life in our own ways we seek
And those we choose to lead us far more of us speak
Than anything of ourselves we'd like to say
'Tis we who choose the sort of World we live in today.

Why bother to blame the like of Bush, Blair and Howard
When 'tis by people like us these blokes have been empowered
We give them our power and they create a war
And they cause death and suffering in places afar.

Between different races and cultures so much mistrust and hate
But this ourselves we've chosen for to create
We make our own foes and we choose our own friends
But our pathway through life at the reaper's gate ends.