I MISS THE PLACE

 

I miss the place

Where I journeyed into this world

Where a loving mother

Kissed me and gently brushed my curls

 

I miss the place

Where mother taught me the joys of life

And my father

Taught me to seek harmony from strife

 

I miss the place

Where my school days first began

And those friends

That made up our inseparable band

 

I miss the place

Where my heart had an optimistic view

And I miss the face

Of my one and only love so true

 

I miss the place

Where summer days seemed without end

Where natures bounty

Spilled from the fields we had to tend

 

I miss the place

Where the bones of my parents lay

And the times

When our days were full with play

 

I miss the place

I knew before I grew into a man

And took up arms

To fight for the king in a foreign land

 

I miss the place

That is the home I shall never see again

Never smell the grasses green

Or taste those gentle summer rains

 

I miss that place

My distant home far across the sea

The place I left behind

So I could die fighting for the free