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