What happened to the boy I was? <br />Why did he run away? <br />And leave me old and thinking, like <br />There'd been no yesterday? <br />What happened then? <br />Was I that boy? <br />Who laughed and swam in the bund* <br />I there no going back? <br />No recompense? <br />Is there nothing? <br />No refund?<br /><br />Spike Milligan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/indian-boyhood/