We Are More Like Them

Some animals and birds are bound by territory
This is how they are and how they will always be
Like us they have their borders to defend
In their ways like many of us why otherwise pretend
Many of us humans our superiority to all other life forms do not try to disguise
But we are more like them than most of us would wish to realize
That most human beings like most animals and birds are territorial does seem right
Like them for our borders we are prepared to fight
We may feel superior to all other life forms but with them much in common we does share
Other life forms killing each other beacause of borders like we do is not rare
The big difference is that other life forms in killing feel no wrong
The guilt conciousness to humans only does belong
But we are not different to them in every way
Since people die defending their borders every day.

Never Among The Nice People

No joy on meeting one of self conceit
But nice people are always a pleasure to meet
The down to earth friendly person in truth one can say
Never fails for to bring joy to somebody's day
Sad to think that snobbish people are no longer in the few
Though this is not saying anything that is new
When you bid them in passing a good day or hello
Why they are stuck for an answer one does not need to ask why so
Perhaps it is just that they feel superior of mind
To down to earth you of the ordinary kind
Most down to earth people may be strangers to renown
But they are the social foundation of every town
But those who are full of their own self conceit
Are never among the nice people to meet.

The Former Wife And Child Beater

He used to beat his children and his long suffering first wife
But what goes around always does come around in life
The wife beater is with a husband beater today
She bellows orders at him and he does obey
He only hit her once and she hit him back
And she fully angered went on the attack
A few kicks and punches and he hit the floor
She made sure that he would hit her never more
What goes around comes around in truth one can say
The former wife beater is the bashed husband of today
Our past does catch up with us in some sort of a way
If the law does not catch up with us to Karma we must pay
The strongest and biggest meet their match in life
And the former wife and child beater has met his match in his second wife.

You May Be Young And Healthy

You may be fit, young and healthy and in your physical prime
But the Reaper of lives on you may well call time
The Reaper of lives who wields the scythe of death
At anytime can rob you of life's living breath
You may be quite young with years on your side
But on how long you live Life's Reaper decide
You know not the moment or the time of day
That Life's Reaper from you will snatch life's breath away
You may be a vibrant young woman or man
With everything in life for you going to plan
But the funeral bell that tolls for the old
For the young and the healthy also has tolled
You may be young and healthy and in your physical prime
But the Reaper of lives on your life may call time.

On Success You And I

On success you and i cannot agree
Those who are successful to you are not so to me
Of the praises of celebrities you love to sing
But success as is said can be a relative thing
On your idea of success you are one of the majority
Which leaves me as one of the minority
A successful person to me is loving, caring and kind
And on the helping of others is always inclined
Our views on success poles apart you and i
Though on some things as most do we see eye to eye
Your ideas of success are quite different to mine
Suppose we must agree on this to differ and this suits me fine
You and i look on this in a different way
But it is each to their own as the wise one does say.

Their Laugh Of The Day

Perhaps in her eighties her hair silver gray
The hat off of her head by the wind blown away
Into the saltwater and washed out to sea
Two male teenagers nearby fun in this did see

It was an embarrassment for one who was proud
To be laughed at by young cads since their laughter was loud
She did seem upset very much so indeed
And walked to her car and quickly drove off at speed

The young bucks greatly enjoyed their laugh of the day
At an aged woman's expense which seems sad to say
But those whose laughter does come at another's expense
Does lack in compassion and in common sense

Of the feelings of others their sort not aware
That she did look embarrassed they did not even care
They laughed loud as the hat off of her head was blown into the bay
And by the retreating waves to sea carried away.

We Can Only Live In The Now

From there i have been many Seasons away
And there to many i would be a stranger today
Claraghatlea two kilometres west of Millstreet town
Where i used to live when my hair was dark brown

Where i lived the physical best years of my life span
And where from a child i grew into a boy and from a boy grew into a man
But going back the years this now seems long ago
And time that rusts iron has become my foe

Today i would be a stranger to many in the Town of Millstreet
And few i know there i would happen to meet
The mentors of my childhood years among the deceased now lay
And my friends of my younger years like me have known of a better day

The old fields i loved in my memory remain
And on my flights of fancy i walk on them again
Where i grew to love Nature when i was a boy
And learning of her ways today i enjoy

I may never see old Duhallow again
Though memories of what was in me does remain
We can only live in the now as the wise one does say
And at the stroke of midnight the past will be today.