Born in the fifties, baby boom years
A child of the sixties, scuffed knees and tears
A teen in the seventies, met Sal, fell in love
and at the end of the decade, wed the above
Brought a house in the eighties, two offspring we saw
and then in the nineties, along came two more
Watched the i2k clock at the Millennium turn
and nothing stopped working, we were quite pleased to learn
A new century turned and into the noughties
as we left a decade behind and entered our forties
Twenty-ten came and went, the best years of our lives
then we found we were fifty, well what a surprise
And now as the teenies are nearing an end
we are looking at pensions on which to depend
But the twenties will follow when we’ll be retired
so perhaps we’ll go backwards and become more inspired
We have decades more to look forward to yet
with more pleasure to come the older we get
©Jemverse
Photo – Jem ‘After Warhol’ – Jempics
