The Great Olympic Champion Poem by Francis Duggan

The great Olympic Champion has known a better day
With makeup and hair dye she covers her wrinkles and gray,
The World's fastest female six decades ago
She walks with a frame now and her fastest pace slow,
The World's fastest female in her glorious prime
A victim of ageing brought about by time
She would give up her gold medals and all of her renown
Right now to be able to jog through the Town,
She would give up all of her fame to be able again
For to run through the park in the wind and the rain,
She would swap all of her successes just for one more run
Around the training track in the warm Summer sun
But one can't turn back time and her good days long gone
And the best she can do now is to keep on keeping on.