The Old Man Today

The old man today was young years ago Time that ages everyone has become his foe With gray hairs on his balding head the years on him show In his young years a champion athlete now his fastest pace slow A widower in his late seventies his wife dead for five years Her passing from life did reduce him to tears Together they raised three daughters of grandchildren he has ten The grandads of today in the past were young men It is a young person's World it does seem this way But the young of the present will be old one day I often see him out walking in the park or the street And he always says hello to me when we meet The passing of time has left him walking slow The years on the best of them eventually show.