When You Are Old Poem, by Blue-eyed Bolla, at My poetic side

When you are old and done with dreaming

And silence makes you feel like screaming

When bitter breezes bite

And foes are fierce: I’ll fight!

When sadness stains your days once sunny

And you can’t laugh or find it funny

I’ll play the clown for you

Just like I used to do

When days drag on all dark and dreary

And times, too tragic, turn you teary

When life is one long trial

I’ll sing, to make you smile!

When faith has failed and hope lies bleeding

And lines you pen are prayers of pleading

If God does not come through

I’ll undertake for you!

When you old and stooped and sleepy

Worn out, with weary eyes, all weepy

When you don’t have a prayer

You know I’ll still be there!

When You Are Old