Jane Margo she recalls with sadness and she is always close to tears <br />Whenever she talks of Leongatha she hasn't been back there for years <br />In 1991 when she was last there she see changes in her Homeplace <br />And on the streets where she skipped rope and played games her's was not a recognized face. <br /> <br />She's only thirty nine Jane Margo and her only child Ann is nineteen <br />But she's overweight by twelve kilos she once looked so petite and lean <br />As some women age they put on weight without an increased appetite <br />And Jane seems to put on the kilos though she has been watching her diet. <br /> <br />In her younger years in Leongatha she was so popular with the boys <br />And all of the Town's young teenagers for lovely Jane Margo had eyes <br />But what a change twenty years can bring with blond dye she covers her gray <br />The once brown haired and blue eyed beauty has aged quite a bit you might say. <br /> <br />She lives in Queensland north of Brisbane at least two thousand miles away <br />From Leongatha in Gippsland Victoria in the sea side Town of <br />Mackay <br />The lorikeets sing in the parklands on the flowering bushes and trees <br />On a warm place even in Winter with an average of twenty degrees. <br /> <br />When Jane Margo remembers Leongatha her happy girlhood she recall <br />And the fond memories of her old Hometown are her happiest memories of all <br />And though she feels happy in Queensland in the sea side Town of Mackay <br />She'll always remember the good times she knew in Gippsland far away.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/jane-margo/
