Time As You Do Know Poem by Francis Duggan

Time as you do know does come at a cost
You cannot bring back the years you have lost
The clock it keeps ticking and ticking away
And every day brings you one nearer to your last day
A healthy and fit person in your life's prime
Though this is going back a few decades in time
The longest lived human life in real time not a long span
On average a few years more for a woman than it is for a man
With the Reaper of lives we all have a date
It comes to people on their life's journey sometimes early but more often late
Some i went to school with not living today
And time on our lives ever ticking away
And those who say the longer you live the sooner you will die
Are surely not guilty of telling a lie.