Are Older Persons Gold For Guidance Or Waste As Rubbish? Poem by Ramesh T A

Are the older persons a burden or guidance to others in the world?
Old is gold says an age old proverb since time immemorial to me;
After crossing seventy years, am I a tattered cloth on effigy?
Knowledge and experience well used one naturally becomes wise!

Only beneficiaries know ideas of older people are gold forever;
Older persons like Mahatma Gandhi still lives as great spirit
In the hearts wise people old and young seeing violence now in
The world craving for good friendship and love in the world...!

Such great older souls have brought freedom and democracy to
Nations under imperial rule of colonial governments for many
Centuries for posterity to enjoy life of unity, friendship and
Love to live the life and do the works they life in freedom!

But now taking for granted the freedom all embraced technology
Forgetting Nature, Art and Culture like moths rushing to fire
Only to die as many do under the spell of false civilization
in the modern old that has made men as machine-beast-men ever!