On the length of human life there are no guarantees <br />People die young in wars and of disease <br />In every countryside, village and city and town <br />People die in motor accidents and people drown <br />People die of malnutrition and from their Homelands afar <br />Fighting in war zones in another man's war <br />Only the lives of the rich and famous in book form is told <br />And an octogenarian is one who is considered as old <br />In the Human World that we live in today <br />Time it does tick on as some do like to say <br />My better days it does seem are long in the past <br />But on looking back time it did tick on so fast <br />The facts do tell us so and facts never lie <br />That as mortals us humans are born to die.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-the-length-of-human-life/
