Wrote this when I had nothing better to do. Actually it was just befor 
the Super Bowl but I just finished it. Hope you like it

When You Can't Do
 What You Want


When I was very tiny,
     Just a little tike,
And I wanted my own way
     When riding on my bike

My folks would say to me,
     "You cannot take it, son,
Into the street right now
     Because you are too young."

Then when I got older
     And wanted to stay up late.
They said you are still too young,
     Wait until you are eight.

Then I wanted very badly
     To drive the family car.
They said I wasn't old enough,
     Once again age was a bar.

Then when I was eighteen
     And wanted to have some fun,
They said I would have to wait
     Until I was twenty-one.

Then when I am old enough
     To providefood and shelter
Maybe, then maybe, it is true,
     Then I could be an "Elder."

Now I am old enough, you know
     To stay up very late
For I am closer now to the age
     Of being eighty-eight,

And now I can ride a bike
     And even drive a car
But the truth is really this,
     I can't drive it very far. 


Now that I don't need permission
     Yet once again I am told
I can not do the things I want
     Because now I am too old!



ghvs 1/29/97