He Will Always Be

He will always be the aging bloke from elsewhere A blow in from the bigger World out there That he is not a local is not hard to tell His accent is strong he does not speak the language well In his late forties well beyond his prime years in life A bomb cost him his three children and their mother his wife A survivor of a terrible war far away He lives safe from gunmen and bombers today Tall and athletic and dark skinned quite a handsome man Perhaps in this town he will live out his life span Quite gentle in his ways of him one can say That he would never harm anyone in any way Though safe from the gunmen and bombers at last He does live with his terrible memories of the past His grief at his great sense of loss he retain Such bad memories with him sadly well may remain He is one as a local who will never be known And whenever i see him he is always on his own Often out walking in the park or on the street As nice a person as one could wish to meet.