Tied Poem by Francis Duggan

From life they have not learned much though they have lived for many years
The very conservative old blokes and old dears
That some only grow older but not more knowledgeable or wise
Should not be in itself in any way a surprise
Though the clocks on their lives ever keep ticking fast
They remain in their ways tied to the past
Though decades of years past their physical prime
In their opinions they seem to be frozen in time
Even change for the better in their words they oppose
But then we are what we are one does have to suppose
Their parents are lecturing them from their graves
To old ways and old thinking they remain as slaves
Not open to learning or to change of them one might say
And time on their lives ever ticking away.