A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To Old Age
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to old Age
By Franklin Price
2/1/2015
A funny thing happened on the way to old age
Book opened at birth headed for the last page
Interesting chapters some short and some long
Most of it right very little was wrong
The chapter now open is really quite cool
Discovering friends that were left in high school
Fifty years gone getting near fifty-one
To get reacquainted is really quite fun
We left one another in June '64
Our callings quite varied six hundred and more
As many as classmates that left on that night
To travel as far as each of us might
We left and we did it whatever it was
Many lost contact except for rumor and buzz
Some never left are still living next door
Some seen on vacations through letters and more
Then reunion time came it had been fifty years
We gathered together to down a few beers
Fewer we were we were saddened by that
Many had wrinkles and a little more fat
Some who had made it found friendship in age
If you like you may find me on my Facebook page
Already retired without much to do
You can post things to me and I can post some to you
Pictures of grand-kids and vacations too
Posters with sayings that mean much to you
Grateful to live and to have health and home
And you're probably glad it's the end of this poem
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