An Ode To The Fall Of Life

An Ode To The Fall Of Life

An Ode To The Fall Of Life

In the Fall of Life, I'm trying my Best,

To Pen this Ode, Before my eyes Rest.

Of yesteryear, and of happy days, 

Of the ways of challenges , that life plays.

"Spring" - the happy day we are born, 

to, that sad day we lie in mourn.

Each day and year takes new wings,

Of this wonderful life that always sings...

Our childhood passed, with nothing to worry,

No responsibilities, no tensions, or need to say sorry...

Happy carefree days at school we spent, 

Sadly, those days of childhood slowly went...

Days of youth invited us to dream our dreams,

Free, to enjoy, picnic's, mountains and streams...

"Summer" responsibilities came up on you, beckoning,

Life showed its teeth, a matter of reckoning. 

Interviews, Jobs, growth and competition,

For some very easy, for others a matter of tension..

And love came calling, dreams galore,

Of poems, and songs, and times at the shore.

With family calling, came a new phase of life,

Care, protectiveness, with children and wife.

Happiness, Sadness, Pain, Hurt came to count,

In life those were stages to test and surmount,

Even before life well enjoyed, it finished, 

Dreams, and great plans, all diminished...

Came the "Winter" of life, an onslaught of cold..

Painful knees, reminding "Your'e getting old"...

That too went with "Grandchildren" embracing,

When you look back at Happy Years gone by racing....

As the fall of life, comes calling strong..

We think of what went right and what went wrong...

Of times to lose, Of times to keep,

Of times to laugh, Of times to weep...

Every year of life was like a season,

But we will remember with every reason...

Now this time has come for me,

To tone down dreams, Oh yes less I can see...

In "Autumn" all I can say is thank you God.

For a wonderful life lived, that has left me awed!

In the Fall of Life, I'm trying my Best,

To Pen this Ode, Before my eyes Rest.