Over the Hill and Beyond
Age fifty comes and you thought forty bad?
Some little aches and pains will start to fill
your weary body, but don’t be too sad,
for you can say you got up to that hill
and over it! And what a thrill it was!
Now sixty comes along and oh, what fun!
You get to study medicine because
diseases you’d not heard of have begun
to plague you from your head down to your toes.
You have to be content with salads or
face diabetes, and what else? Who knows!
Mid-sixties you’ll learn what retirement’s for.
It’s time to change your ways or even worse,
by seventy you’ll end up in a hearse
For Sara Kendrick's "Which Of The Four Would You Choose" Contest!
Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2016
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