Time On The Best

It is plain to see time has become his foe

He is not the man he was decades ago

The hair on his balding head gray the years on him show

His fastest pace nowadays to say the least slow

In his prime the champion athlete of the town

And his was far greater than local renown

Three times National eight hundred metres champion when none as him ran as fast

All he has are memories of his glorious past

Back in the days when he was quick on his feet

A former Olympian against the World's best he did compete

Now a grandfather in his late sixties divorced from his wife

Without a partner he lives a single life

Every day he jogs in the park his fastest pace slow

Time on the best it eventually does show.