Mary From Mayo

Perhaps in her late fifties to early sixties we talked of times ago
A kind and caring and pretty woman is Mary from Mayo
I met her on the sidewalk of Commercial Road in Koroit Town
By the Warrnambool-Penshurst road where many cars and trucks pass up and down

We quickly came to realize that in the past friendships in common we did share
Though for migrants to have mutual memories to say the least not rare
Memories of our deceased mutual friends John Tarrant and Marty Kerins with sadness we did recall
Their fate one day will become ours since death comes to us all

Peggy Connolly nee Lynch a friend of her's i know of and we share Eileen Tarrant nee Smith as a mutual friend
But commitments and time most of us are slaves to why otherwise pretend
I feel sure we would have had more mutual friends to talk of but we had pressing commitments elsewhere
It is true it seems a small World after all in the big World out there

For as long as the great gift of memory with me it will stay
The memory of this chance meeting in me will not fade away
That some memories are not special to us it well may be so
But this is something i could never say of meeting Mary from Mayo.