I May Never

I may never climb on old Clara Again

Or walk in the fields in the wind that brings rain

To the peaceful place where the waterways meet

In the green countryside near the Town of Millstreet

I may never more hear a male pheasant crow

In Spring in the rushes near where Cails waters flow

Or in the calm of the twilight the soft lowing of a cow

To her calf in a field by River Finnow

Old memories remain as a source of joy

Of where i grew to love Nature as a young boy

And of Nature we learn something new every day

We never stop learning in truth one can say

I am learning from Nature in this place far south

Of the fields of the badger and waterways of the brown trout

Home to echidna, koala and grey kangaroo

And magpie, pee wee, corella and yellow tailed black cockatoo

On looking back the years time seems to go fast

And all i have now are memories of the past 

But the present is what matters as the wise one does say

As we live in the now and the now is today.