Why have the gray hairs

Grown thick on his hand?

Why has adventure

Turned boring and bland?

Why have his eyebrows

Grown hoary and white?

Why are the clothes that

Once fit now so tight?

Why do his knees feel

So stiff on a rise?

Why for no reason do

Tears fill his eyes?

Why’s he grown fearful,

The man once was so bold,

Cowering now

In a body grown old…