{"id":38575,"date":"2019-09-16T16:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=38575"},"modified":"2021-12-12T03:14:37","modified_gmt":"2021-12-12T03:14:37","slug":"old-age-personified-by-des-kelly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/old-age-personified-by-des-kelly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;OLD AGE, PERSONIFIED&#8221; \u2013 BY Des Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\"> &#8220;OLD AGE, PERSONIFIED&#8221; \u2013 BY Des Kelly<\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6g7ij2hh0Do\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0 <span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Unfortunately, the author of this touching poem is not known, but the &#8220;post&#8221; on FB came in via Max &#8220;The Body&#8221; Philisaire, and my youngest son, Warren, and, if this isn&#8217;t &#8220;OLD AGE PERSONIFIED&#8221; I would not honestly know, what IS!!. Because we Do have many elderly blokes who are members of eLanka, yet, not on Facebook, I have decided that this would be a most interesting &amp; &#8220;moving&#8221; bit of reading for themselves and their families to read, given what seems to also be &#8220;going on&#8221; in some Nursing Homes and Special Accommodation Homes, right now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian Country Town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre possessions, they found this poem.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">It&#8217;s quality and &#8220;content&#8221; so impressed the Staff, copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 One nurse took her copy to Melbourne. The old man&#8217;s sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas Editions of magazines around the Country, also appearing in magazines for Mental Health. A &#8220;slide-presentation&#8221; has also been made, based on his simple, but eloquent poem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This old man, with nothing left to give the World, is now the author of this &#8220;anonymous&#8221; poem, winging it&#8217;s way across the Internet. Because I do not know the author, and as, quite possibly, he has already passed on, (as stated), I have edited this magnificent poem, where absolutely necessary. R.I.P.(just in case), &amp; hoping you will not mind, Sir. I am not too happy with the title, but I won&#8217;t take that away from you, because, if I do, you might turn out to be just that.!!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;CRANKY OLD M<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 24px;\">A<\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff; font-size: 24px;\">N&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;What do you see nurses, what do you see? ,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">what are you thinking, when you&#8217;re looking at me? ,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">a cranky old man, not very wise, uncertain of habit,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">with faraway eyes?,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; 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color: #0000ff;\">to just do your bidding, and eat, at your will,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m a small child of 10, with a father and mother,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">&amp; brothers and sisters, who love one another,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">a young boy of 16, with wings on his feet,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">dreaming that, soon now, a lover, he&#8217;ll meet,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">a bridegroom, soon, at 20, my heart gives a leap,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">remembering the vows, that I promised to keep,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">at 25, now, I have &#8220;young ones&#8221;\u00a0 of my own,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">who need me to guide them, in a safe, secure home,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">a man, now of 30, my family have grown fast,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">bonded together, in &#8220;ties&#8221; that should last,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">at 40, my young sons, are &#8220;grown-up and gone&#8221;,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">but, my woman&#8217;s beside me, to see I don&#8217;t mourn,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">at 50, once more, babes play on my knee,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">these are grand-children, for my loved one and me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">Dark days are upon me, my wife is now dead,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">I look at the future, and shudder with dread,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">for my young are now rearing young ones of their own,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">and I think of the years, and the love I have known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">I&#8217;m just an old man now, and nature is cruel,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">it&#8217;s sad to make &#8220;old-age&#8221;, and look like a fool,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">the body, it crumbles, grace and vigor depart,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">there now lies a stone, where I once had a heart,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">but, inside this old carcass, a young man still dwells,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">and, now and again, my battered heart swells,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">I remember the joy, I remember the pain,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #0000ff;\">and I&#8217;m loving and living life, over again,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 24px; 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