AN OLD MAN'S GRUMBLING



AN OLD MAN'S GRUMBLING

How quickly does our time go.
The days run by, the years fly.
If the young men only know,
That old age is to defy.  

Aging is a long, long road,
And comes when you do not wait.
Aging means a new abode  
Onto which you will go straight.   

Aging breaks your fragile body
And grinds it into shear dust.
Aging makes you somewhat shoddy  
When in life you’ve got no trust.

You’ll get out of situation.
When from the life you break.
Death is seen the right salvation -
"Se La vie", neither give nor take!

About this poem

“Aging is not a pleasure. It is a fight for the life”

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Written on August 26, 2021

Submitted by valentin_s on August 26, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 531
Words 102
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 4, 4, 4

Valentin Savin

My name is Valentin Savin, born January 6, 1939. Russian, a pensioner since 1999 Write and translate poems, mostly of English and American writers and some Spanish speaking ones. Member of the Union of Writers of Russia more…

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