On A Life's Journey

I do not know where my life's journey will take me Though i do know where for me it all began In Claraghatlea a short walk to Clara Mountain Where i was born and grew into a man Today back there i well might be a stranger As it has been a long time since i last lived there The children there today would ask their parents Who is that old bloke who came from elsewhere? We all are born to go on our life's journey A journey that can take us to places far Though some in them do not have the need to travel And feel content to live till death where their roots are But even the stay at home types are on a life's journey In familiar places they like to work and reside They marry locally and raise their children Whilst those with the bug of wander travel far and wide On different ways we are on a life's journey Though every life's journey does have an end For when all is said and done we are mere mortals This is how it is why otherwise pretend.