What Is Human Life Poem by Francis Duggan

What is human life but a short span of time
Just ten years of life in our physical prime
And from mid life to old age the clock does tick on
On looking back the Seasons one wonders where to has the time gone
Time will not wait for you it did not wait for me
How many more years will i live for to see
Since i am one who has lived to see many a Spring
And who is to say what the future will bring
To me or to you or indeed to anyone
Though the past we remember and when all is said and done
The now is what matters and at midnight today will be of the past
And few things as we know them ever seem to last
The longest lived human life in time such a short span
On average a few years more for a woman than it is for a man.