r/poetasters

In life you reap what you sow as a truism remain

If you cheat somebody for your own financial gain

In some form or other on some future day

To karma for you there is a price for to pay

But those who in their kindness sow karma's good seed

Will be rewarded for their every good deed

There is truth in the saying that those who give will receive

This is something that should not be hard to believe

Of anyone do not say things that are untrue

And pay to everyone the respect that is their due

Wisdom can only come from the mouths of the wise

And leave it to the paid critics for to criticize

Live and let live is the best you can do

And help anyone if you can who needs helping from you.

Francis Duggan

To your higher self you can only stay true

By treating other people as you would like them to treat you

In your words others never belittle or begrudge

Leave it to those who are paid to do so for to be people's judge

Acts of kindness for good karma are always the seed

Help if you can do one of your help in need

The good things for yourself that you choose to do

Does not tell anyone of the goodness in you

Though you may not be among the admired of the town

In word or deed you never put any one down

In your acts of kindness hope to others you bring

And that in itself is a very good thing

By performing a good deed or more every day

For a better world to live in your part you do play.

Francis Duggan

Born into life for to battle the odds

They are the children of the lesser gods

Every day in life a new challenge to meet

For the poor homeless teenagers of poverty street

Living as the outcasts of humanity

They can only dream of for them of what cannot be

Just like their parents for robbery serving prison time

They too at a young age have turned to crime

Born into disadvantage the main reason why

That opportunity of success their sort does deny

So many like them in the human world of today

Who due to no fault of their own in life have lost their way

Not the sort of lifestyle anybody would choose

Of the poor and homeless born to lose.

Francis Duggan