<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567397" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Jimmy</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With the aid of walking stick he shuffles down the side street and time has left him looking stiff and gray<br>And truly it can be said of old Jimmy that he is one who has known a better day<br>Ageless father time takes care of everybody there was a time when he could run quite fast<br>But now he only can walk at a slow pace and all of his better days are in the past.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a football hero in his heyday the best on ground in nineteen forty one<br>The day that his club played in the Grand Final without him the Premiership could not be won<br>Close to his prime and in his early twenties on looking back that seems so long ago<br>It's true that time leaves it's mark on everybody the man who once ran fast now walking slow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The hard games of football he played in now on him telling he has arthritis in his painful right knee<br>An injury that forced him into retirement when he was past his prime at thirty three<br>Back in the forties and fifties he was a football hero but football heroes like the seasons come and go<br>And that he once was a Grand Final hero is something few young people wish to know.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Jimmy slowly shuffles down the side walk a mere shell of the man he used to be<br>In forty one he starred in the Grand Final when he was near his prime at twenty three<br>And father time has left his mark on Jimmy and time 'tis said for anyone doesn't wait<br>And the grim reaper will take the king and pauper and the grim reaper will take the football great.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</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=567397" data-title="Old Jimmy de Francis Duggan" data-description="With the aid of walking stick he shuffles down the side street and time has left him looking stiff and gray And truly it can be said of old Jimmy that he is one who has known a better day Ageless father time takes care of everybody there was a tim..."></div> </div> </div>

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