Stroke Of Midnight Poem by Francis Duggan

At the stroke of midnight today will be gone
Time that rusts iron does keep ticking on
What does the future hold not for me to say
Only know tomorrow will dawn as it did today
But there will be a last dawn for you and for me
Some time in the future who knows when this will be
And the longer you live the sooner you will die
A mere fact of life and fact never lie
That we never stop learning does apply to all
We have been learning from life before we learned how to crawl
We seem to age quickly beyond our youthful elan
And the longest lived human life in time not a long span
People are born and die every day
And time on our lives ever does tick away.