Some men as they age do not grow wiser they just grow old and gray <br />Enlightenment from their minds by arrogance blocked away <br />Whilst some men in their twenties for their years are quite wise <br />Though to a lot of people that may come as a surprise. <br /> <br />No fool like an old fool as some are known to say <br />We hear of and do read about such people every day <br />Ageing men who send young men to war to fight and die <br />No fool like an old fool is surely not a lie. <br /> <br />The wise a mere minority from the facts we've come to note <br />The most arrogant to positions of power the voting public vote <br />That our political leaders are our reflective mirrors does seem so very true <br />A World of war and terror perhaps is our due. <br /> <br />Some ageing men for their years have little wisdom for to show <br />With age more arrogant they do only seem to grow <br />The arrogant are many and the wise are in the few <br />To this you very well may say tell us something that is new.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/no-fool-like-an-old-fool/
