Some I Went To School With Poem by Francis Duggan

Some i went to school with not living today
And time has left me looking wrinkled and gray
The farewell bell for them will too ring for me
Some time in the future whenever that be
The fact is us humans are mortals and fact does not lie
And like all other life forms one day we must die
And on how long we live we do not have a say
The clock on our lives ever ticking away
On looking back it does not seem that long since i went to school
Far north of this countryside by Warrnambool
But in human years this is long ago
And time that rusts iron has become my foe
Some i went to school with now resting in peace
And the longest lived life of time not a long lease.