An Inspirational Woman.

With stooped shoulders and hair more white than gray She shuffles to the milk bar every day And nod her head in greeting say hello To those she know or feel that she may know. On her next birthday she will be ninety three And her dearest wish to reach her century A century of years well worth a toast And a feat of which so very few can boast. She came from hills of distant Pakistan And settled here and wed an Aussie man And he passed on some fifteen years ago But she still live and not much she doesn't know. For many years a devoted mother and wife And she has known the ups and downs of life And her son she has not seen for many years But she feels now she's had enough of tears. The good days and the bad days she has seen But she say this the happiest she has ever been And she look to the future years in hope And age no burden she know how to cope. So far away from Asia she will die And her ashes spread beneath Australian sky This woman from the hills of Pakistan And widow of Australian working man.