Unfulfilled Expectations.

sonnet in tetrameter

Unfulfilled expectations.

 

Three score years and ten: They say

 is the life span of a man.

Though it’s no longer true today.

People have realised they can.

Defy the dire predictions

 and need not die obediently.

To suit the statisticians.

I‘m fast approaching ninety three.

And still live independently.

Growing disgracefully

 content to act rebelliously.

Although the statisticians all agree

I should have died long years ago.

Which proves how little that they know

 

 

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

Well when one reaches a certain age he can say what he pleases his peers wont complain and the powers that be have no right to .