The Man Who Feels Fear

In his eighty ninth year the man who feels fear The bangs of the war guns he never did hear As a young man he was never in an army or learned how to use a gun Drinking and socializing and making love to women was his way of having fun A father and great grandfather and divorced by his wife He says his fear of death has guaranteed him a long life The brave young men of his younger years went to an early grave There is always a price to pay for being too brave Of any acts of bravery on his behalf he cannot tell But the man who feels fear for his years looking well At the local pub he enjoys a good laugh and joins in the cheer And he has not lost his liking for the beer As a young man he never put his life on the line One reason he is alive at eighty nine.