These Are the Golden Days

These Are the Golden Days? By Elton Camp Old age young persons often praise Describing it as being the “golden days” However, if they live to be that old They’ll learn that it’s a lie they’ve told Many times I don’t feel very good Can do only a fraction of what I would True I don’t have to go to work anymore Have more financial security than before Even as a youth, I didn’t look very well And now I am most surely as ugly as hell Decades ago, I had brown, wavy hair But now only a little gray remains there A liver spot here and a big wart there Even small children I easily may scare My hearing is already on the way out Family members are beginning to shout That I can still see isn’t a surprise I have implanted lenses in my eyes However, I am grateful to still be around Since Alzheimer’s hasn’t taken me down