He Will Hang On To Life

With Little to show for his existence at all He feels that his biggest achievements are small His best days behind him his prime years long gone And only due to the fear of death to life he clings on. His forty year old son married with school children he has not seen for years And thought of them often has him close to tears He has not seen them for eight years in that many a day They live in a city from him far away. His ex wife re-married apart they had grown The seeds of a new love in her life she has sown He once loved her but to him she was an unfaithful wife And now he is not unhappy that she is out of his life. Living in poor low rental accomodation he struggles to pay rent Though life's lost opportunities he no longer lament He has lived as unhappy for many a year And only the fear of death that he does fear. In his early seventies he looks frail and gray And the biological clock on his life it keeps ticking away And though he is a sad and a lonely old man He will hang on to life for as long as he can.