Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg

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.