Eyes of An Ageing Man

Eyes Of An Ageing Man The eyes of an ageing man Can tell a story few others can For surely he has seen it all From a nation rising, to it’s fall From wars for freedom, and of security Each with its own uncertainly His eyes has witnessed the Russian collapse To more recently, the border control relax He’s seen great men lead, and other fail Oh the stories his eyes could tell Dictators reign to complete overthrow He’s watched freedom rise and continue to grow He’s seen the common worker loss his job He’s witnessed grown men sit and sob He watches as the drug trade overruns the land Stealing time from the hourglass of sand He’s seen building go up and come down He’s seen fear and panic on the ground In all his years he never though he’d see The power of hate that there appears to be The lack of tolerance and morality That has become the normal reality For what this man has seen through the years Has dried his eyes of it’s last tears