Monday 27 October 2014

AND HE WALKED AWAY:


He´d lived in his village, from his very first day,

Determined since his birth, he was going to stay,

He worked the land & he went without school,

He was taught by the earth & was nobody´s fool.

 

His village stayed quaint, but didn´t stay the same,

Cobbled & lost in time, then the tourists all came,

They laughed at his clothes & his funny wood shoes,

Then went back to their sunning & eternal cold booze.

 

He watched from a distance at the new & the strange,

And in his memory´s eye, saw the passing of change,

Remembering way back, when he had vowed to stay,

Now, shaking his grey old head, he just walked away.

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