The polluted World of Suburbia well over an hour's drive away <br />And out where saltwater is deeper the gannets are diving for prey <br />The silver gulls mewing on the rooftops and i fancy again i can see <br />The walking track down to the beach head from that little town by the sea. <br /> <br />Away from polluted suburbia of factories and traffic noise <br />In a world of bird song and beauty and sun shine and clear coastal skies <br />To visualize is not a hard thing at least it comes easy to me <br />And I'm never far from saltwater and that little town by the sea. <br /> <br />The surfers who ride the huge surf waves are they more foolhardy than brave? <br />For some of those who took on the might of the ocean now lay in a watery grave <br />The greater the wave the greater the challenge yet what's fun to them madness to me <br />And they can't live far from saltwater and their little town by the sea. <br /> <br />The coastal people love the coast lands and they could not live in the big town <br />Where the streets are crowded with shoppers and motor cars roar up and down <br />They live where they can hear the ocean and where shrike thrush sings on banksia tree <br />And they will stay till the reaper claim them in their little town by the sea.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-little-town-by-the-sea/
