banjojack wrote:
When you are my age, every morning you wake up with aches in places where yesterday, you didn't know you had places.
Well here is how I feel about it.
L. TAYLOR, 6/9/13 life-66
AGING ROUTINE
IT SEEMS TO ME THAT A SEASON, AND LIVING LONG IS THE CAUSE.
WITHOUT ANY GOOD NEW REASON, OUR ROLE IN LIFE WILL PAUSE.
BOTH MEN AND WOMEN OLDER, CHANGE, WOMEN GET CRANKY.
AND SOMETIMES SO MUCH BOLDER, THE MEN JUST GET SKANKY.
MEN ALSO GET MUCH MILDER, AS IF THEY''VE COME FROM BATTLE.
WHEN THE PLACE GETS WILDER, THEIR THOUGHT ARE TO SKID-ADDLE.
THE WOMEN NOW INSTEAD, ALL STAND WITH THEIR FACES SO GRIM.
EYES LIKE FLINT, SHAKE THEIR HEAD, THEIR BACKING DOWN IS SLIM.
MAYBE IT HAS BEEN ORDAINED, THAT IN THIS OLDER SEX RELATION.
THAT WHAT THE MAN OBTAINED, IS REALLY OF A WOMAN'S CREATION.
THE MEN RETIRE TO THEIR CASTLE, AND WANT TO FIND SOME PEACE.
THE WOMEN TAKE TO THE HASSLE, AND ARGUEMENTS NEVER CEASE.
THERE IS ALWAYS SOME MINOR CHANGE, THAT WOMEN SEEM TO SAVOR.
THEIR LIVING STYLE TO JUST REARRANGE, BETTER SUITE THEIR FAVOR.
THE THINGS THEN THEY'VE ALWAYS HATED, ARE SUBJECT TO THEIR RAGE.
IT WILL NEVER BE ABATED, UNLESS THEY CAN SIGN ON TO THE PAGE.
SO WHY DO THEY HAVE THIS NEW CONDITION, IT IT BECAUSE OF STRIFE?
OR JUST SOME URGENT COMMISSION, WE WANT TO ADOPT IN OUR LIFE.
THE MEN ACT SLOW LIKE A BEAR, AND PULL BACK FROM CONTENTION.
AND JUST SETTLE INTO THEIR LAIR, AS IF IT IS THEIR MASTER INVENTION.
THE WOMEN NOW STAND UP TALL, AS IF THEY MUST FACE THE DRAGON.
AND WANT TO CHANGE MOST ALL, TRY TO GET THEIR WAY BY NAGGIN'.
THEY USE NAGGIN' LIKE A CLUB, AND BECOME SO GOOD AT NIT-PICK-IN.
REMEMBER EVERY LITTLE FLUB, AND CLUCK LIKE AN ANGRY CHICKEN.
THE MEN LOOK AT THIS ACTION, AS THEIR WAY TO STIR UP THE POT.
AND THEIR USUAL REACTION, IS TO IGNORE IT, AND JUST DO IT NOT.
THE FUTURE IS NOT CERTAIN, THEY SEE THEIR PART AS MORE SURE.
THEY START TO PULL THE CURTAIN, THEY WANT JUST TO DO NO MORE.
SO WHEN MEN BACK OUT OF SIGHT, THE WOMEN SEE THEIR CHANCE.
AND STAND UP TALL TO FIGHT, LIKE IT'S STARTING A NEW ROMANCE.
BUT THE YOUNGER MEN LEADERS, WILL PUSH THEM BACK DOWN.
THEY WON''T LET THESE NEEDER'S, TRY TO TAKE AWAY THEIR CROWN.