Forever Young
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#24 Forever Young
Looking out from weary, aged eyes
Into a mirror to the soul that never dies.
He analyzes the face so haggard and mean
With the awed curiosity of the internal teen.
He gazes at the pate so shiny and bare
And remembers the locks that once flowed there.
There is a macabre toothless grin
Where once perfect pearly whites had been.
The back and muscles that many a burden did take
Now are bowed and weakly quiver and shake.
Inside the spirit, so vibrant and free,
Screams, "Oh my God, can this really be me?"
He hangs his head and fights back the tears
Then laughs at the cruelty of the passing years.
He remembers the women he loved and the songs he sung.
Though eighty years old, in his mind he's forever young.
When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent importance,
his colleagues generally present him with a watch.
R.C. Sherriff
Retired is being twice tired, I've thought
First tired of working, then tired of not.
Richard Armour
O, blest retirement! Friend to life's decline -
How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these,
A youth of labor with an age of ease!
Goldsmith
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The challenge of retirement is how to spend time without spending money.
Author Unknown
Retirement is wonderful. It's doing nothing without worrying about
getting caught at it.
— Gene Perret
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