Olympics

I spend my hours these days Watching the Olympics With the usual champions the Americans Canadians sometimes winning A few medals for swimming Women winning Still no men Emotional with Oleksiak 16 year old Torontonian Breaking Canadian records With 4 medals Women rowers too getting there Wrestlers, high jumpers, gymnasts, And Nestor and Pospisil For tennis medals. Eliminated by Spain. 22 medals for Canada, tying it to the Atlanta Olympics In 1984... What else can a retiree do But leisurely watch tv Take leisurely walks and swims See a movie, Pray, eat, sleep And repeat this routine Symbolically comparing the Olympics To life, to youth, to that period in life When competition was the be-all and end-all But now I watch passively As the young go through this Olympic process In life, of life, youth, middle age, Then, old age when the process ends And life is but that Shakesperean 'walking shadow, A poor player that struts and frets upon a stage And then is heard no more.'