mrbleasdale

40

As my birthday is today, I begin to think.

 

That’s it’s time to swim and no longer sink

 

Life a forty now begins they say,

 

yet it’s so far from birth, closer to hitting the hay

 

I was told this at twenty and again at thirty

 

I guess I will know on this day they call Thursday

 

So as forty approaches i sit here and ponder

 

Can I pull off old as good a Jane Fonda

 

Lessons learnt but mistakes still made

 

As my waist line grows and hair line fades

 

A child inside yet a man on the out

 

40 years in still figuring life out.

 

But now I can see some sort of path

 

It’s no time for sorrow but to have a laugh

 

To laugh again and to enjoy my life

 

Start a new journey with much less strife

 

So here’s to being forty, raise your glass have a drink

 

It’s now time to swim and no longer sink