Do I Gotta Get Up? Poem by G.B. Smith

Looking at me now

you might not ever

think I was young

new and rather grand

Now all these years later

I appear to be misused

aged and misunderstood however

when I was young and newer

I was something to behold

you see it is me and not the body

we have aged and been left forgotten

I still have life in me

my heart runs good and my

legs are strong and willing

to do whatever is demanded

it is just that my get up

and go has got up and went

time was when I could

dance the night away

now I can't sleep

hard to pee and forget that other thing

my foundation is still sturdy, but


the years have caused wrinkles

sags and bulges in the wrong places

some days it just don't pay

to even get outta bed

I tell ya, it ain't easy being me

What's a bear to do?

Sigh...