Each day you get older,
And with each day life changes.
Youth passes so quickly
That you are soon into middle age,
And before you know it
Old age rears its head.
This feels like you are being punished,
Old age increasingly feels like a crime,
A crime that you did not commit.
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Author:
Goldfinch60 (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: I heard somebody say "Getting old is like being punished for a crime you did not commit".
- Category: Reflection
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Great music, reminds me of how Buddy Holly's sound filled my childhood home when my older siste brought home his EP. It got more plays than anything else. To this day i enjoy playing 'Peggy Sue' on my ukelele having changed the title to 'Ruby-doo' for my granddaughter.
I don't feel like old age is punishing other than my aching knees and back (seeing osteopath today amid various jobs). I'm pleased with my status of being an experienced and knowledgeable senior in my trade. Though it does worry me that my prospective customers may feel I'm too old and doddery to do the work.
On reflection i can see how you personally may see ageing as a punishment. Some of the bland reasoning provided by our churches concerning suffering of ageing is more than questionable.
I see aging as a wonderful thing, if I get up in the morning all is well in spite of the current problems in my life.
I still remember all the words of the Buddy Holly songs, that is surprising as I forget many other things nowadays.
This life is the debt for our past deeds. Our personal hell and our heaven. How we react in the present (cause) shall become our future (effect).
Old age is the verdict......
Engaging
Thank you for your inciteful comments Suresh.
A good write Gold. This seems so for some (many?). Yet some oldies can still go swanning about, etc, enjoying life, though I don't begrudge them if theyare able to do so.
Ahh - the old 'chestnut' or 'stumbling-block' (?) about 'Why suffering?'
Yes I still go 'swanning' around when I can get a way with it.
A great write and thanks for the BH clip - Unintentionally I looked much like BH in my youth and to this day certain family members still refer to me as BH.
Thanks Michael, so sad to lose BH so early.
BUDDY HOLLY NEVER GREW OLD !
taken from us in 1939 aged 22 ~ A
short but influential life especially
on JOHN LENNON ~ AMEN
Thanks Uncle Andy for sharing both BUDDY HOLLY and the problems of advancing age ! My DADS MANTRA is:
Every AGE has its PLEASURES but
also its PAINS ~ but on balance Id
rather be alive than DEAD !
Every Blessing & Love to YOU & JOYCE ~
BRIAN & ANGELA 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
Please check POEM on RIOJA WINE !
BH, died in1959, with Big Boppa an Richie Valens.
Thanks G wisdom has no value now we have Google.
But I'm glad I had my youth WHEN I had it... we had such role models as Buddy
Smile and wave !
Thank you Andrew, yes we were lucky to have our youth when we did, it was a fine time in our lives.
I understand where you are coming from.. it aint easy.... N
Thanks Neville. I am fine it was just something I heard the other day and thought I would write about it. I pick up many things to write about just by observing and listening. Not many are prepared to listen in this day and age, it is surprising and wonderful what you can hear.
indeed, tis true...
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