Colin F. Jones

AN AGING VIEW

Finding words for feelings, is so hard,
for the young to do,
they’ve not learnt yet to regard,
a lie from what is true.
Temptation clouds much rational thought,
that mistakes are often made,
and all those things one has been taught,
rest briefly in the shade;
and older folk who have forgotten,
what being young is like,
think the fruits of youth are rotten,
that their wisdom takes a hike,
for young folk who are not yet grown,
can no older be,
than the thoughts they don’t yet own,
and their eyes that still can’t see.
If age means envy, bowed to wisdom,
then why do the ‘aged’ complain?
Perhaps it’s due to fading memory,
as they reach the age of pain.