PERHAPS AN EPITAPH TO MAN 

As thinking, I did walk one day,

And chanced to see a child at play.

Considered I, ..... what might have been?

Thought! ..... Life is real and not a dream.

For as your born, So shall you go,

It does you well while young to know,

That all the things the old ones say,

As time goes by, come true some day. 

How many say, if only then,

Had common-sense been mine and when,

Those words of wisdom all were told,

All now experienced, now I'm old. 

If these reflections mean a thing,

Let them to, a youngster bring,

Enlightenment, each time that's heard,

The wisdom of an 'old-ones' word. 

                  J.L.Jennings Proprietor Kirkstone Pass Inn  ©