17/30 OLD MEN

"young men use strength, old men use art" - an old man

The world is run

by old men,

old men

and their peers,

old men

with experience

and gray hairs

growing from their ears.

The world is ruled

by old men,

old men

wearing spectacles

and a vacant smile,

old men

a little senile

with skull-

cap spare of hairs,

balding bold

and near

the end

of their ill-

lustrous years

and grand careers

of ingrained ill-

gotten gains.

The world is run
by old men,

old men
ruled by their wives;
so guess who rules
our lives.

©2013 by G. Newton V. Chance