Those I Went To School With Poem by Francis Duggan

Those i went to school with showing their years in gray
Like me in life they have known a far better day
Some of them from Millstreet Town live far away
Whilst some in the old Parish did choose to stay
And some of them among the departed lay
On how long we live we do not have a say
Some are grandparents whilst some never wed
Or never had children and a single life have led
For all of their lives quite content on their own
But we all share one thing in common better days we have known
I am one of those who live distant from the old home place
Where mine today to many would be a stranger's face
But the now is all that matters as the wise one did say
For we live in the now and the now is today