A Lady of a Certain Age

I’ve been around this world awhile, have had my ups and downs. I think were I to tally them, I’ve had more smiles than frowns. I want to live each day as though it is the very last, for I have been improvident and a wastrel in the past. Time, greatest of commodities, must be used or it's gone. It cannot be stored nor hoarded. It's worthless when its done. I have reached an age that’s greater than it has been before. I’m ashamed to ask the good Lord to give me one day more Unless I grab it and hold it and put it to good use. I intend to meet my Maker without a weak excuse. This is the way that life feels when you get to be my age, that the story will be ending. You hate to turn the page.