Showing Their Age

The years have left him feeling weary and gray And surely he has known of a far better day But in his prime years he was one quite quick on his feet The town's fastest runner a champion athlete Though it has been many Seasons since he was in his physical prime Going back the years some five decades of time He was for a while the sporting legend of the town Though time it has faded some of his renown The best and the fastest become wearied by life I often see him walking in the park with his aged wife Arms linked on the pathway they shuffle on slow The years on the best of them eventually do show Who would believe without knowing that in the long ago On going back the Seasons fifty years or so That in big athletic meetings he always competed against the Country's best And was never found to be wanting when put to the test In their mid to late eighties he and his wife great grandparents are showing their age Their lives journey quite near to the final stage Time from them has stripped youth's beauty away In the park i often see them out walking though not every day.