Have You Ever Felt Nostalgic For Your First Homeplace Poem by Francis Duggan

Have you ever felt nostalgic for your first homeplace
Though today there to many yours would be a stranger's face
Since the young generation there you would not know
In many years of absence in their old home-place migrants as strangers do grow

The lust of the wander take many young people to elsewhere
In search of adventure in the big World out there
Some never again return to the old hometown
Though they feel nostalgic for what was when they feel down

Have you ever thought of old friends far away
Though them you have not seen for many a day
Nostalgia may lessen as people grow old and gray
But absence makes the heart grow fonder as some do like to say

Have you ever felt a bit sad and quite close to tears
As you thought of the past and your younger years
You are not alone in that there are many like you
And i must confess i have such moments too.