Not Always a Rocking Chair

You can join with the raisins

and those who are old.

Call them your friends

and join in their fold.

Play bingo and bridge

and golf every day.

Then stop for some coffee

down at the café.

You can ride into the sunset,

quiet as night.

Fade away, fade away,

if you think that is right.

But old age need not

be a rocking chair.

It can be hope

and a dream that is fair.