He cannot boast of personal successes the man who was born to fail <br />One might say he is unemployable and he has served a year of time in jail <br />For burglary without violence he is not a violent man in any way <br />He was born to the wrong type of parents but in our birth we do not have a say. <br /> <br />His childhood years mostly unhappy and his memories of his tender years sad <br />When he was twelve his mum went to live with her lover and she left him to be raised by his dad <br />His alcoholic father is a violent person and by him he often was beat <br />At fourteen unwanted and homeless a poor soul of Poverty Street. <br /> <br />He lives in a basement flat nowadays an unemployed life free of crime <br />A twenty six years old diabetic, single, alone and in his prime <br />He works in a work for the dole program his welfare payment is not a handout <br />He is one who knows of the hard life and of good times he knows nothing about. <br /> <br />The man born to fail is not a failure so much about him to admire <br />For to save the life of a baby girl he risked his own life in a fire <br />He ran into the burning building and brought the baby to safety through the smoke <br />And the child's parents feel so grateful to him and they acclaim him as a great bloke. <br /> <br />Ask not what you can do for your Country but ask what you can do for your neighbour instead <br />The man born to fail is a success thanks to him a child is not dead <br />'Tis easy for to be judgemental and so easy to put people down <br />But the so called loser sometimes is a winner and can become the toast of the Town.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-man-born-to-fail/
