Have A Twinkle In Every Wrinkle

Have a twinkle in your wrinkle,

Defy age and let there be in your voice a tinkle!

Remember that age is just a number,

No need to give up and go meekly from dumb to dumber!

Even if the flesh is weak, keep your spirit soaring,

No need at all to make your life needlessly

dull and boring!

If your life is imbued with zest,

You will not be cowed down by age, the pest!

Why should your life of listlessness reek

When you have still to scale many a peak!

As you have yet way to go,

Don’t meekly yield to age, the foe!

Keep the banner of your enthusiasm flying high,

Where is the need to die everyday before you actually die!

You are as young as you think,

So why not at age just thumb your nose and playfully wink?

Believe that you are as young as you feel,

That is the best way with your sunset years to deal!

Have a twinkle in every wrinkle,

If at all, let your face in child-like wonderment crinkle!

Arun Bhagat

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