earthly voyages

Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg

Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg, age 13, to me, November, 2002

The clock awakens
Ticking through time
The boy grows older
Abandoning nursery rhymes.

He learns to read,
Write, and talk
Goes through school
Books, tests and chalk.

To a bright future he heads
Aging too fast
Going through college
Using his skills from the past

The boy, now a man
Becomes a lawyer
Happily marries
Is his own employer

He grows older
Wiser too
Still fresh and hip
As he was at age two

He reaches sixty-two
A perfect age to be
Is wished happy birthday
By his good old friend, me.

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