40

mrbleasdale

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

 

 

 

  • Author: mrbleasdale (Offline Offline)
  • Published: March 11th, 2021 04:02
  • 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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  • orchidee

    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.

    • mrbleasdale

      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

    • L. B. Mek

      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

      • mrbleasdale

        Always good to hear from you. Thank you for your kind words

      • Jerry Reynolds

        Happy Birthday, B.
        Bend some rules, fly in the face of convention, be one egg short of an omelet or just make some mischief.

        • mrbleasdale

          Jerry

          Thank you so much for your kind words

          Kevin

        • Doggerel Dave

          At double that age, still figuring it all out.....
          "Grow old dis-gracefully" - an old slogan worthwhile remembering as one of several goals....

          • mrbleasdale

            I will do thank you

          • Goldfinch60

            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

            • mrbleasdale

              Thank you very much. It’s was a good emotional day



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