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
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- Comment from author about the poem: As I reach 40 today! I see very much a new chapter in my life. After some difficult years and a hard lady 12 months. I signed on to a new career yesterday just in time. Life presents us with some many opportunities but so much to come together at such a mark in my life. I am grateful
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Good write and Happy Birthday wishes there Mr B!
I won't tell ya about someone moaning and saying: 'But I will be THIRTY soon. I'm getting old!' Oops! I just told ya! lol.
Ha ha thank you! To be honest I feel your pain at 30. That was more of a shock than 40. Once you get to 30 and still don’t feel old 40 isn’t too bad.... 50 though? Hell no
happy birthday dear poet, hope you have a wonderful year ahead and a great start to your 'Spring' forty's, onwards and upwards delighting in each gifted breath of this ephemeral experience, we have titled life
Always good to hear from you. Thank you for your kind words
Happy Birthday, B.
Bend some rules, fly in the face of convention, be one egg short of an omelet or just make some mischief.
Jerry
Thank you so much for your kind words
Kevin
At double that age, still figuring it all out.....
"Grow old dis-gracefully" - an old slogan worthwhile remembering as one of several goals....
I will do thank you
May that new path you will now be travelling bring total fulfilment in your life, as it did to me when I was forty so many years ago.
Hope you had a Happy Birthday.
Andy
Thank you very much. It’s was a good emotional day
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