Narayanan Ramakrishnan - STAY YOUNG

To look young, what all tools have we!
Greyed hairs turn jet balck and we see
An younger face but wrinked and skinny,
Double chin too vandalise and add to your misery.

Facials you can do, so too you can apply cream,
Ads in jounals entice you, reaping more and more reams,
Presenting before you models for you to, of dream,
Beauty parlors, too many, to keep you seemingly on stream.

Myself greying fast and chin too slowly doubling,
At fifty two, look older I, but surely not balding,
A little child calls me grandpa and my wife aunty,
Somewhere it pricks, but takes it in my stride, as paltry.

Staying young and looking young is good and surely a boon,
Days and months fly fast as, April, May and June.
Keep your heart young, play and exult like a baboon,
Dress well, eat well and behave well and be never akin to
a bafoon.

Narayanan Ramakrishnan

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