Would I Feel A Stranger Now

Would I feel a stranger now in Claraghatlea
It has been two decades a cold and bleak day
The dark clouds of rain they were low in the sky
When to the life that I knew I said goodbye.

So many old friends in eternal rest lay
In St Mary's in Millstreet from here far away
And though them in the flesh I will not see again
The mental pictures of them with me remain.

Good memories I do not find hard to recall
The old fields they would not have changed much at all
I visualize the hoarse caw of the gray crow
And the babble of the stream along by the hedgerow.

Would I feel a stranger now in Millstreet Town
The West End and the Main Street I might walk up and down
And at people I recall smile and say hello
But an ageing face from the past nowadays they might not know.

Since I left a new generation into young adults have grown
And in Millstreet by so few I now would be known
And in Claraghatlea my old Townland so many might say
Who is he that stranger he looks old and gray?