Back When A Boy

Away back when a country boy
Was ever so keen to have a go-
Back when everything was simplicity
And boys were just so keen to know-

When the very smell of hay and the land
Was the smell that they longed for-
And not being afraid to work at all
They'd be out amongst all they adored-

The machines of the day and the hay
And all that went with same-
A country boy thought it would always be
But along came progress and all that changed-

Was not long and all he loved in life
Was just about all done now with a new machine-
And he saw so many still willing and able to work
Sitting around like cabbages green-

One had to have a degree now to do these things
All he'd done for years without one at all-
And the old machines now rusting out and about
No longer useful and as day and night would fall-

So many country boys back then with broken dreams
As the bigger places they made sure-
That little farms they simply all went broke
As they could not compete not any more-

His boy hood country dream was over for him
To one day always do as he had learned-
And in the way they did in his day
As each day and nights candle burned-

Back then all were happy with what they had
And never wanted more and more all of the time-
They simply did each and every day the same
As they always had right down the line-

And now grown older he thinks back to when
Remembers all he loved so back in the day-
When he learned all he thought he'd ever need to know
But progress it took it all away-

Terrence Michael Sutton
copyright 2008

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