His Fastest Pace Nowadays Poem by Francis Duggan

His fastest pace nowadays does seem rather slow
The passage of time on old Jimmy does show
The town's best fifteen hundred meters runner fifty years ago
Eventually time becomes everyone's foe
He slowly walks with the aid of a cane on the street
Who would believe that he was a marvelous athlete
A National champion when in his life's prime
It rusts steel and iron it is said about time
Shoulders slightly hunched his balding head gray
Physically he is one who has known a far better day
For the Olympics he once qualified but due to injury could not compete
Some setback in life most do happen to meet
A great grandfather his wife and soulmate Kate died seven years ago
And time it has become old Jimmy's foe.