He Is As Hard As Nails Old Billy

He is hard as nails old Billy tough times he's had to survive You ask him how is he faring he'll say good to be alive Good to watch another sunset behind the far western hill As the magpie he is fluting the one with the silver bill Twenty years ago he lost his wife and teenage son and daughter when their home burnt to the ground They were almost burnt to ashes only charred bones of them found All he had loved from him was taken to him lost and forever gone He recovered from his heartbreak like he says life does go on Billy is in his mid sixties many years past his life's prime He says the past has gone forever no holding back the hands of time He says everything happens for a reason and life for him goes on somehow We cannot live in the past or plan for the future we can only live in the now He is one of life's survivors and at heart he is so kind Yet one with a more tragic life story than his would be quite hard to find.