I Want To Live On

Three score and ten years the average lifetime span

I am five years with that which makes me an old man

But i am feeling healthy and have no wish to die

If i did tell you differently this would be a lie

I cannot boast of material success

And others i feel no desire to impress

Being looked on as a failure does not cause me any mental duress

Since i have the greatest gift anyone does possess

And this is life the greatest gift of all

That came to us in our mother's womb before we learned how to crawl

A gift with money that cannot be bought 

And eventually will be lost to everyone though hard to keep it many have fought

And if there is an afterlife for the soul i will not be where angels dwell

Since in my Earthly life i was not devout or done financially well

And i wasted my time on penning doggerel

My forever home will be a place known as hell

What i receive from life is my due i suppose

And like most with few friends i do not have many foes

My best physical years in the forever gone

But i do love life and i want to live on.