72 Miles From The Sea

Friday, 16 June 2023

You eat wisely

And you exercise daily

Then die anyway

“I smoke 10 to 15 cigars a day”

George Burns said when he was still a thing

Approaching his hundredth birthday

“At my age I have to hold on to something”

January 20th,1896 - March 9th, 1996

The World when I was a young man

Now that I’m old my wish has changed

And I want to change the young if I can

You mustn’t let ageing get you down

Its something you just have to face

And let’s not forget how hard it was

Getting yourself up in the first place

I sat down on a park bench

So, I could pull up my socks

Sadly, I wasn’t wearing any

God getting old really sucks

Long after needing bifocals and hearing aids

We still make love in the silent gloom

The only difference being that during the act

It would be difficult to tell with whom

Makes a man healthy wealthy and wise

Early to rise, late to bed

Makes a man haggard fatigued and dead