Saturday, 25 August 2007

GETTING OLDER

(a poem written in college)

GETTING OLDER

No jumping and shouting like before...
Life is not the same anymore...
I am no longer brave and bold...
Maybe I am getting old...

My limbs complain of pain...
Tired thoughts trouble my brain...
My (once) boiling blood is turning cold...
Surely, I am getting old...

The walk is getting slower...
Spoken words are fewer...
My hand needs another to hold...
Of course, I am getting old!

And of me, says a modern sage,
"At last, he is coming of age!"

- Pravin K Sabnis (1989)

1 comment:

Roopa said...

Like a white candle on the dais
such is the grace
of an aged face.

nice poem. keep it up.