William Shakespeare has been wrong
When he coined the old age
As the second childhood.
The child is at peak to grab,
Possess, explore and dare
With full of joy and gay.
All such traits have drained
To naught the time one grows old.
08.06.2006
Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-aren-t-second-child/
