He Is One

He is one of the high country many miles north of the big town
Where the brown creek from the mountain towards the big river travels down
At the start of it's long journey towards the distant ocean shore
The sound of it's familiar babble will live on forever more
At the start of his adventure in the bigger World out there
He plans to live and work here for a short while and then to move on to a big city elsewhere
He will not be hurrying back to the high country so much for him in the big World to see
On his next birthday he will turn twenty and of cares and ties he is free
Of life's ways he is only learning the wonder in his young mind does grow
Of life that has so many lessons and so much to learn of and know
He left the home of the wombat, koala, echidna, wallaby and kangaroo
Galah, emu and rosella and the black and the white cockatoo
The lust of the wander was in him for the bigger World out there
He will stay and work in the big town for awhile and then take the road to elsewhere.