Don't ask me I dont have the answers to what life is all about <br />On true stories that I hear of I will even cast a doubt <br />I'm a cynical old fellow too much so for my own good <br />I doubt stories of Maid Marian and her lover Robin Hood. <br /> <br />He's a cynical old bugger those who know me say of me <br />He does not believe in the existence of God, Heaven, Hell, Limbo or Purgatory <br />He has grown older but not wiser though the years have left him gray <br />You show him a flowering garden he will only see decay. <br /> <br />Just one more ageing Poetaster I don't have a claim to fame <br />Poets and Artists, Presidents and Monarchs to me they are all the same <br />I will not address as sir or madam the wealthiest person in the Town <br />Why should they be treated different they too seek their own renown. <br /> <br />Everyone is disliked by someone everyone has got a foe <br />And you will have few to judge you if many of you do not know <br />Even in the best kept garden a few weeds amongst the vegies grow <br />Everybody has their failings though in some their failings do not show. <br /> <br />I love to be alone with Nature when the sunlight's on the trees <br />And the wildborn birds are singing in the freshening evening breeze <br />All of Nature's creatures are innocent even Nature's birds and beasts of prey <br />If they kill and eat things smaller Nature has made them that way <br /> <br />He's a cynical old bugger that's what others of me say <br />Yet to judgements good or bad of the judgemental any heed I never pay <br />Everyday we are being lied to 'tis hard to separate the truth from lies <br />I only believe what I witness what I see with my own eyes.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/he-s-a-cynical-old-bugger/
