How Old Are You Today?

A birthday poem

Happy Birthday, today is your day

Are you still glad you decided to stay?

Do you feel any older than before?

No. No, no, no, I still feel like I'm four

Today I turned twenty-eight

But, stop, please wait I still feel eight

My inner child she is fighting strong

Even though I've gotten things all wrong

Why can't the clock stop and time stand still?

Pretty soon I'll be over the hill

But when I am ninety-nine

Will I still feel like I am nine?

Well, knocking on death's door

I must really not be a child anymore

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[John the Baptist]

Supposedly, the inner child persists. The outer body, not so much.