Lucky To Be Alive Poem by Francis Duggan

Some children to adulthood do not survive
Those who reach three score and ten years are lucky to be alive
And to survive to beyond your eight decade you need great health and good luck on your side
So many years younger than they are have died
Old Joe in his eighties is still going strong
At the local pub he enjoys his beers and joins in the sing along
The best years of his life are in the long gone
A man who loves life who does want to live on
The praises of dead heroes many may sing
But the great gift of life is such a marvelous thing
It is a fact of life and fact never lie
That one day or night we are destined to die
A fresh summer breeze is blowing uphill from the bay
It is so good to be living on such a nice day.