William H.A. Willbond MSM, CD

MY HOME – QUEBEC

The beautiful red leaves of the Gatineau Hills in fall (as depicted on our Canadian flag)
The maple sap vapours boiling in spring in a cauldron covered with a cheese cloth rag

The clean crisp air of la Belle Province sweetly filling the depths of one’s lungs –
These Descendants from Ireland and from France who fought the German Huns

These are the dreams I feel in sleep and for my Martindale Grandpa I still weep
I lived at Lac Meech until I was seven, a good catholic boy on my way to heaven

The skidding horses and the pulp logs – chickens, cattle and our own butchered hogs
That was the way that things were back then – but one can never really go home again