You Are Never Too Old To Learn Poem by Francis Duggan

You are never too old for to learn so they say
And from life we do learn something new every day
You may be in your nineties showing your years in gray
And you have not stopped learning if your memory's okay
But I must be the silliest man on the street
For I still make mistakes and my mistakes I repeat
Older but not wiser and 'twould be fair to say
That I do not learn from life every day
And that wisdom belongs to the aged only lies
I do know some old people and they are not wise
Yet the more we learn from life the more our realization does grow
That so very little about life we do know
And those who say they know it all to themselves only lie
As we learn from life till the moment we die.