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Cranky Old Man
What do you see
nurses? . . . . . .What do you see?
What are you thinking . . . when
you're looking at me?
A cranky old man, . . . . . .not very
wise,
Uncertain of habit . . . . . . . . . .
with faraway eyes?
Who dribbles his food . . . ... . .
and makes no reply.
When you say in a loud voice . .'I
do wish you'd try!'
Who seems not to notice . . .the
things that you do.
And forever is losing . . . . . . . . . A
sock or shoe?
Who, resisting or not . . . . . . lets
you do as you will,
With bathing and
feeding . . . .The long day to fill?
Is that what you're thinking?. .Is
that what you see?
Then open your eyes, nurse. .
you're not looking at me.
I'll tell you who I am . . . . .. As I sit
here so still,
As I do at your bidding, . . . . . as I
eat at your will.
I'm a small child of Ten . .with a
father and mother,
Brothers and sisters . . . . . . . who
love one another
A young boy of Sixteen . . . .. with
wings on his feet
Dreaming that soon now . . .. . . a
lover he'll meet.
A groom soon at Twenty . . . ..my
heart gives a leap.
Remembering, the
vows . . . . .that I promised to
keep.
At Twenty-Five, now . . . . .I have
young of my own.
Who need me to guide . . . And a
secure happy home.
A man of Thirty . . . . . . . My young
now grown fast,
Bound to each other . . .. With
ties that should last.
At Forty, my young sons .. .have
grown and are gone,
But my woman is beside me . . to
see I don't mourn.
At Fifty, once more, . . . . .Babies
play 'round my knee,
Again, we know children . . . . My
loved one and me.
Dark days are upon me . . . . My
wife is now dead.
I look at the future . . . . . . . I
shudder with dread.
For my young are all rearing .. . .
young of their own.
And I think of the years . . . And
the love that I've known.
I'm now an old man . . . . . . .. and
nature is cruel.
It's jest to make old age . . . . . . .
look like a fool.
The body, it crumbles . . .. . grace
and vigour, depart.
There is now a stone . . . where I
once had a heart.
But inside this old carcass . A
young man still dwells,
And now and again . . . . . my
battered heart swells
I remember the joys . . . . . . . I
remember the pain.
And I'm loving and living . . . . . . .
life over again.
I think of the years, all too
few . . .. gone too fast.
And accept the stark fact . . . that
nothing can last.
So open your eyes,
people . . . . . . . . . open and see.
Not a cranky old man. . .
Look closer. . . . see. . . . . ME!!

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