FORTY !

I'm forty feeling sixty
I'm worn out and worn down
Where once I had a smiling face
I often wear a frown

I'm sick and tired of working
the deadly eight to five
slogging through the endless day
to come home half alive

My bones are tired and weary
my back is stiff and sore
I'm getting pains in places
that I've never had before

Farewell to the days of youth
I've left them far behind
Look forward to senility
and losing half my mind

My eyesight's getting dimmer
and my hearing's going too
Don't laugh my friend for in the end
these things will come to you

I'm forty feeling sixty
and the world is rushing past
and in the race to claim first place
I'm coming in dead last

(c) January 2001 Written in Adelaide, South Australia.

Somewhat older than 40

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