Far Away Town

He has lived in this suburb for fifty years of his life And here raised his children with his beautiful and devoted wife She died of cancer in her mid fifties his grief in her passing was healed in the shedding of tears He has lived without love for fifteen lonely years He often does think of his first home far away Where he knows all too well he would feel a stranger today Many of those he grew up with in the home town did not stay And some of them at peace forever does lay In the neighborhood where he has lived for decades to some he is known But where he will never be seen as one of their own In his mid seventies a nine times a grandfather showing his years in gray One can say of him he has known a better day An aging migrant far from where he used to live when his hair was dark brown Here he will die as the man from the far away town.