Maitri Is Forty

She cannot be forty you are kidding me Maitri looks younger at most thirty three Why appearance the true facts of age can belie Is something that has caused me to wonder why? Could it be of her life worries Maitri makes light She always seems happy and bubbly and bright No lines on her face and no gray in her hair And she is not one of those who is shackled by care. Well liked and well known and one many admire In the place once known as Sherbrooke now the Yarra Ranges Shire From her old Homeland of New Zealand many miles away But she loves the old hills and in the old hills she will stay. To toast her on her birthday the toasting glass we will raise And were I a poet I'd pen a song in her praise A song for Maitri to it has a nice ring A song that a singer would feel proud to sing. That Maitri is forty I scarce can believe For she looks years younger or do my eyes me deceive Her appearance says thirty at most thirty three And four decades of life in her face I can't see.