A Candid View On Aging Poem by Joseph Anderson
A Candid View On Aging
I sat before my desk last eve
To assess my current plight;
The things I see, you might agree,
Indicate a major blight.
My heartbeat is irregular
And, likewise are my bowels;
My appetite has flown the coop
While my nervous stomach growls.
My sex drive took a wrongway turn,
On life's highway, some miles back;
My drugs for that don't seem to work
So, I'm no good in the sack.
My bones keep going crackle-pop
And my back's in constant pain;
I have fungus on my toe nails
And my garden needing rain.
My teeth and hair are getting thin,
I'm having trouble seeing;
My prostate gland has swollen up
And that restricts my peeing.
That about sums it up, for now,
Not to mention larger ills.
Did I forget to tell you how
I keep mixing up my pills?
I'll be eighty five, when spring arrives
And, with luck, I do survive;
So, thank you, thank you, thank you Lord.
Gosh! It's great to be alive.
Delightful humor and very excellently written, enjoyed the lines and the details of aging. Happy to know at 85 you are still sharp with the wit.
I love it. And I have to say it's not years that make you old, its that we stop living. Thanks for the laugh.
numbers mean nothing, we are as young as we feel. lovely write on aging
Hello Dear Great Poet Joseph Anderson Next year Spring you will be 97 years, are you still on PH now? We know each other too well
My heartbeat is irregular And, likewise are my bowels; My appetite has flown the coop While my nervous stomach growls...fine piece of poetry..10++
I'll be eighty five, when spring arrives And, with luck, I do survive; So, thank you, thank you, thank you Lord. Gosh! It's great to be alive...superb
THE FIFTH AND LAST PART: On this Poem Hunter poem site poets oft give 10´s for the voting and rating and I give you milliard of 10´s dear Joseph.since you deserve the most. Writing is perpetually my greatest business but I also give lectures to students and since 1992, due to my beloved Mum, I got the certificate for an evangelist. GOD loves YOU, Joseph. With the best regards from Sylvia Frances Chan from The Netherlands, West-Europe.
THE FOURTH PART: On Poetfreak I like your words very much, but you are a devotional poet through and through, dear Joseph. Happiest to have met you again here on Poem Hunter. I thank the Lord Almighty that this has occurred now Sunday the 1st of October at 2.55 hrs AM West-European Time, since I reside in the Netherlands. At your place it is still Saturday. God is Greatest and He is the One I love very much.like you do.
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I love this! How wonderful to still be able to have a great sense of humor at an age when I'm sure everything creaks, groans and hurts! I'm half that age and already starting to feel it! Beautifully done!