"I'M FINE!! HOW ARE YOU?"

It shows that the senior-senior citizen -poet has a commendable sense of humour with a practical outlook.

Recently when I was talking to such senior whom I respect very much  saying he had an appalling will power,he quipped that it may be true,but for most of the people of the younger generation what matters more is "THE POWER OF THE WILL"!

Regards.

C H Mahadevan

On Thursday, September 24, 2015, Rangarajan T.N.C. <tncrangarajan@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm Fine - How are you? 

There's nothing the matter with me,

I'm just as healthy as can be,

I have arthritis in both knees,

And when I talk, I talk with a wheeze.

My pulse is weak, my blood is thin,

But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

All my teeth have had to come out,

And my diet I hate to think about.

I'm overweight and I can't get thin,

But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

And arch supports I need for my feet.

Or I wouldn't be able to go out in the street.

Sleep is denied me night after night,

But every morning I find I'm all right.

My memory's failing, my head's in a spin.

But I'm awfully well for the shape I'm in.

Old age is golden I've heard it said,

But sometimes I wonder, as I go to bed.

With my ears in a drawer, my teeth in a cup,

and my glasses on a shelf, until I get up.

And when sleep dims my eyes, I say to myself,

Is there anything else I should lay on the shelf?

The reason I know my Youth has been spent,

Is my get-up-and-go has got-up-and-went!

But really I don't mind, when I think with a grin,

Of all the places my get-up has been.

I get up each morning and dust off my wits,

Pick up the paper and read the obits.

If my name is missing, I'm therefore not dead,

So I eat a good breakfast and jump back into bed.

The moral of this as the tale unfolds,

Is that for you and me, who are growing old.

It is better to say "I'm fine" with a grin,

Than to let people know the shape we are in.

I'M FINE!!  HOW ARE YOU?

Whenever people ask me "how are you?" I will say "I'm fine"