It Is True

 It is true that by twenty five years he had outlived his long term wife

And that he was in his mid nineties and had lived a long life

And that he had a good innings and his time had come to die

But the ageist are people who believe their own lie

For when their sort grow old and their best days are in the long gone

It is a known fact they too wish to live on

A truism about the ageist that is often told

That they too are ageing and they will grow old

And they will not like it when young ageists of them will say

They no longer count since they have had their day

It is true that his grandchildren are no longer young

But surely his praises do deserve to be sung

Since to many people he was a good friend

And he battled for life right up to his end.