From Where I Was Born Poem by Francis Duggan

From where i was born and raised i have been so long away
That to many there i would be a stranger today
The babe when i left there now in his or her life's prime
I've not been there for twenty six years that does seem a long time
My physical best years to the forever long gone
But people grow older and life does go on
I was in my life's prime four decades ago
But time as they say becomes everyone's foe
And in the town-land where into a man i did grow
So few of me nowadays would even know
But the past it has gone and the future ahead
And we live in the now as has often been said
And the longest lived human life in time not a long span
So hang on to it for as long as you can.