Where I First Looked

Where i first looked on the lamp of day In distance from there i now live far away Claraghatlea my first home place near the Town of Millstreet In the green countryside where the waterways meet But in my visualizations i hear and i see The red breasted robin on a leafy birch tree Singing his familiar song in the twilight gray Just after sundown on a balmy evening in May Where mine years ago was a familiar face Today i would be a stranger to many in my first home place I have not been there for thirty years that seems a long time And i am many decades past my physical prime I used to say i would go home for to grow old and die But for now to say this may well be a lie Since i no longer yearn for the what used to be It does seem that nostalgia it has died in me Far south of Millstreet Town where i went to Primary school In this coastal countryside by the City of Warrnambool I have found contentment in my twilight years And for the what used to be i have shed my last tears.