<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511516" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Since I've grown old (my version of Jenny Joseph's most wonderful poem, 'When I am old I shall wear purple! ')</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since I've grown old my belly pops out<br>though I don't care these days, <br>and find comfort in the wobbling.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since I've grown old, my body aches<br>in places that I never knew I had, <br>yet I take pleasure in the aching.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is time enough to feel no pain<br>when I am dead. At least I know<br>I am alive, the pain reminds me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To moan and be outspoken is what I fancy<br>and I am _ to annoy my children<br>and my grandchildren and some.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What good is it to be old and silent, <br>to sit in a chair, rocking to and fro <br>without a gripe or a fart or both! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No, I like to let the world know I'm here, <br>and after all these years of staying quiet, <br>to argue my point a little and snarl! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Since I've grown old my skin has creases<br>where there used to be bloom and colour<br>and young men complimented me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Seems like only yesterday I held you close<br>let you suckle from my tiny breasts<br>that are huge now they are of no use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men will say, 'look at the knockers on that'<br>as I lie on the beach, sunbathing<br>with a newspaper over my head…..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so I'll cackle and laugh and swear at them, <br>throw my stick at them and tell them to <br>behave ____ for now I am old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ruth+Walters">Ruth Walters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=511516" data-title="Since I've grown old (my version of Jenny Joseph's most wonderful poem, 'When I am old I shall wear purple! ')" data-description="Since I've grown old my belly pops out though I don't care these days, and find comfort in the wobbling. Since I've grown old, my body aches in places that I never knew I had, yet I take pleasure in the aching. There is time enough to feel no ..."></div> </div> </div>

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