Old Dick With The Balding Head Poem by Francis Duggan

The roadways of life he has been up and down
The travel worn old bloke from the far away town
He does not know if he has fathered children since he never had a long term partner or wife
Though he has had many women in his life
Too old for to travel in the retirement home he will die
That time eventually catches up on everyone is not a lie
Old Dick with the balding head and hair of silver gray
Has physically known of a far better day
As a younger man as a shearer he travelled far and wide
From shearing shed to shearing shed in the brown countryside
Back in the days when his hair was light brown
He drank in pubs and had a lover in every town
In the grounds of the retirement home with a walking cane he is shuffling slow
Physically of a far better day he is one who did know.