Some People Ask Me Poem by Francis Duggan

Some people ask me what age are you the years have left you looking gray
When I tell them they seem a bit surprised you do look much older they say
Which does little for my sense of self esteem my ego begins to deflate
To be looking older than one is not something one should celebrate
Yet some people feel old at forty too old for to dance and to sing
'Tis true what some do say about age when they say 'tis a relative thing
'Tis not how old you look but how young you do feel some in their thirties do feel old
A woman as old as she looks and a man when he stops looking by the wise so we have been told
I'm younger than most say I do look though time for me too did not wait
The biological clock it keeps ticking on all of us a use by date
I know an old bloke in his eighties his gray hair with age turning white
But at the bowl club rooms on saturday he dances well into the night
When I tell them my age they say you look older which is not good for my self esteem
But 'tis not how old you look but how young you do feel or at least that is how it does seem.