< ~ Three Score Years and Ten ~ > --The Modernisation of Psalm 90-- -A Diatribe-

I think about it often

And not just now and then

I'm tough but will I soften

At three score years and ten.

It's stated in the Psalms

(Endorsed by James the First)

Manifest with all it's charms

Overt and plainly versed.

The term of man's endurance

Is three score years and ten,

Though Moses gave assurance

Of ten more years ~ amen.

If we contain the strength

(And thus, we do, we pray)

It's four score years in length,

Before we drift away.

Three score years and ten

Endows itself to rhyme;

Wordsmiths use it when

It's penned from time to time.

But now the scriptures' scribes

Revised the Bible's tongue,

Exposed to diatribes

From those who judge it wrong.

Then since my soul's creation,

My own opinion told,

In God's New World Translation

I'll be seventy young years old.

                         ASJ