As Old As I Am

If I was young and only knew the things that I now know. Then youth would be a wondrous thing the pathways I would go. But always doing as one’s told restricted every day. I’d rather be as old as me (if pains would go away). For age has its advantages without the chains of youth. Remembering the ‘good’ times and forgetting the uncouth. Age even gives us hindsight to correct the things we’ve done, so we don’t make the same mistakes and fall down on our bum. Apart from all the aches and pains I think I’d rather be, As old as I am living now .....and as old as I will be! Ivor G Davies Inspired by Robert Broadbent’s “Oh to be young again”