{"id":5148,"date":"2021-12-22T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2021-12-21T21:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T21:27:07","slug":"the-years-creep-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-years-creep-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The Years Creep Up"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When I was walking the Slieve Blooms a decade back, I was a lot fitter than now – though far from fit!!! – and the hair was black with grey. Time passes, and its now white with black!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Life begins at forty
\nBy some it is said
\nI look forward to fifty
\nBut not with a sense of dread
\nA quiet pondering of where will life take me
\nFor the future is far from clear
\nAs a decade ago I knew I wouldnt be where I was
\nBut I didnt think I would be here!<\/p>\n

If my father was alive hed be getting the cheque
\nBut he never got to see
\nThe last decade, what would he make
\nOf the way things have to be?
\nSo many have died in those ten years
\nAs gets common at an age like mine
\nAll we can do is take life as it comes
\nAnd pray for the grace to do so, divine.<\/p>\n

The years creep up, the hair of fading black
\nWhich has given away to white…
\nGod be with the days when black it was
\nWith the occasional grey in sight!
\nThe wrinkles and jowls will come in time
\nIts natural to be
\nTime ticks on, brings us a road we would rather not walk
\nIn a future we are yet to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was walking the Slieve Blooms a decade back, I was a lot fitter than now – though far from fit!!! – and the hair was black with grey. 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