Old Jim

Old Jim likes to talk of when he was a young man
Virile, fit and healthy and full of elan
And of the women he made love to too many to name
Long before the passing of time left him weary and tame

He fathered one daughter from a brief affair
One who grew into a pretty young woman with chestnut brown hair
But the role of her father did not go to him
But to the husband of the woman he made pregnant who helped to raise the biological child of Jim.

Though he has made love to many women in his life
Jim in his mid seventies never had a wife
An ageing diabetic the years have left gray
He does not have a woman to love him today

On Saturday night with a few drinks in at the pub Jim does talk of the past
But for him like all the clock ticks on too fast
In his prime he made love to many young women of the town
And as the lover supreme he earned local renown.