College Days

I remember my college days
Toronto bound a strange new town
The Queensway right near St. Joseph’s
Was the place where I could be found

Around nineteen if I recall
Wiser than a kid should be
From all the things already seen
A streetwise loner in such a town
Survival skill already learned hands down

But socially a child was I
So caught within as not to see
Those others that surrounded me
The only one in my family
To get past nine in school you see

Rooming house strange place to be
For a loner such as me
Three squares a day were in the price
So I suppose it did suffice

Eight hours in School to pass the test
Then head on down to Queen Street West
To do piece work on leather shoes
Another eight no time for blues
It paid the way to future days

Days go by such monotony
But soon a light a social tree
Soon I had a best friend Matt
A lot like me from Sault Saint Marie

Runnymede was next for me
Another friend I made indeed
An apartment was agreed
Eight hundred bucks was half the rent
No kitchen sink include in
Hamburger please pray for me
Was the staple in the sea
Bean sprouts were from China town
A sweet deal at forty cents a pound

Southern comfort and JD
Where other friends to me indeed
Scarborough was the place to be
On Friday nights with city lights
Nursing schools and party sounds

Oh Matt my friend where drunk indeed
For no one else from what I can see
Can manage to get locked within
The subway at three ten am

Time has passed since college days
I have changed in so many ways
Fond memories of the people that
Have touched my life in years gone past

People come into our lives
Like actors in a play that strives
They make their mark in special ways
Some they stay to walk with us
But others fade into the past
Leaving traces for us to cast

These people in our lives you see
Regardless if they walk or fade
All mold us into whom we are
And guide us like the northern star