I meet them in all sorts of places <br />The park, shopping centre and street <br />I know them and yet they seem strangers <br />The people I'd rather not meet. <br /> <br />We seem to share little in common <br />To them I have little to say <br />With just a brief greeting in passing <br />Words such as to you a good day. <br /> <br />Of me I know they feel the same way <br />In thinking we seem far apart <br />Yet they in their own ways good people <br />Hard working and so kind of heart. <br /> <br />They look on me as a strange person <br />A fellow who pens doggerel <br />One without a god for to pray to <br />To them I'm just an infidel. <br /> <br />I meet them in all sorts of places <br />In the pub and park and on the street <br />Though 'twould seem I share little in common <br />With the people I'd rather not meet.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-people-i-d-rather-not-meet/
