We Seem To Age Quickly Poem by Francis Duggan

We seem to age quickly when past our life prime
And eventually we all become victims of time
I have lived for sixty six years in time quite a span
And if living in ten years from now i will be an old man
In distant fields i grew to love Nature when i was a boy
And learning of her ways today i enjoy
And something new for us to learn every day
We never stop learning it does seem this way
My neighbor's dog is no less a mortal than i
I was born like him to eventually die
Any of the deceased people i have known did not come back to me to tell
Of a life post bodily death or of a heaven or hell
In ten years from now if living i will be an old man
And i will live on for as long as i can.