My Email Message

Guaranteed to become 10 to 20 years younger


Did you get this message?
        I did, when I awoke.
I thought someone was sending us
        Some modern kind of joke.

Millions were spent for research
        On something I have always known,
Something my mother told me,
        And now it is clearly shown.

For why would a twelve year old
        Really want to be two
Or someone who is twenty-one
        Want to be brand new?

Yet that is the theme of my email
        To me it is quite enraging
To think that anyone would ever want
        Something called "Anti-aging!"

Now way back in the mid thirties
        (It must have been all the rage)
For every single mother has said,
        "Why don't you act your age?"

And in the psychotherapist office
        I have often seen
Fully grown mature adults who
        Act like they were just thirteen

Why don't they find some kind of pill
        That will answer mother's question,
"When will you ever grow up?"
        It was not just her suggestion!

And then I think how sad it will be
        If after forty years are done
Because of all the pills we've swallowed
        We die at twenty-one!

If in this life we have known no pain,
        No aging nor any stress
It would be just like a dream.
        Then this we must confess

That dreaming means we are sleeping
        And at death we shall awake,
To face, for the first time, reality
And not something fake!

Psalm 73 describes it, 
        This thing called the final end.
For having been always young
        (I must say, my dear friend,)

Has taught what folk believe -
        Those who have lost their senses -
That even the years we have lived
        Have no consequences!

Now as we age
        Let us remember
Each January has 
        Its own December!

Let every ache and pain or hurt
        Help loosen this worlds hold
And make us welcome the glad morning
        When we'll "walk the street of Gold"


gvs@idt.net
2/8/00