Revenge Of Ageing Poem by Ananta Madhavan

Revenge Of Ageing



The young turn prematurely old.
The middle-aged somehow
Prolong their rapid youth.

But the old find in second childhood
That they had better obey the young,
Fools or prophets though they be.

Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: growing old
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Wrote this in my forties,1975, while living in Hongkong.
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