Time Did Not Wait

Time did not wait for Caesar or for Genghis Khan The schoolboy in a decade grows into a man And a decade of years in one's physical prime Eventually we all become victims of time And time did not wait for Alexander the Great Though his legend today many do celebrate Or for Joan of Arc and Anne Boleyn The martyrs for women at the hands of cruel men For the president, the pope and every leader of state Like everyone else time does not wait We live in the now and yesterday has gone And time does not wait it keeps on ticking on For the movie star or the winner of Olympic Gold It just ticks on and on and people grow old.