He Will Soon Leave The Hometown

He will soon leave the Hometown for places elsewhere
The lust of the wander is in him for the big World out there
At the doorstep of his prime he has just turned Eighteen
He daydreams of places that he has not yet seen
Energetic and adventurous and full of elan
The spirit of adventure is in the young man
He visualizes great Cities distant from his home
Such as Melbourne and Sydney, London, Paris and Rome
He plans to grow old as a well traveled man
To visit Capetown and Rio and Tokyo in Japan
From his rural Hometown he will travel far away
To Montreal, Beijing, New York and Bombay
Eighteen years of his life in his Hometown for him a long enough stay
In the big World out there he will grow old and gray.