Don’t Age!
As you get older, hard to bend
The body slower nears the end
Still, senses keen, clever sensation
But mostly little things give elation
Too lazily; get up a bit late
A sparse but healthy breakfast made
To watch others bustle, ever busy
With advertising, wars, to make you dizzy
Observe the beauty of dark clouds and rain
Know nature's cycle will repeat again
Everywhere new invention and new tools
And mankind’s wisdom matched by fools
To age is so inevitable, evolution, little choice
Just reminisce to adolescence, innocence of boys
Earn and learn wisdom with more contemplation
While sadly future lifeline is now on shortest ration
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Submitted by arthurweil on December 20, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AABBCDEEFGHHIJBB |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 640 |
Words | 108 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
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