<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567545" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Seeing A Photograph</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A photo of an ageing face stirs an old memory<br>He is plainly not a shadow of the man he used to be<br>His balding head is hoary gray his hair it was dark brown<br>When we played football as teenagers in the park in our Hometown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was a sprightly youth back then two years younger than I<br>On looking back the decades the years just seemed to fly<br>He played football worked in the fields and walked miles every day<br>But like me he seems the worst for wear the years have left us gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps we would be strangers now if by chance we did meet<br>We might not recognize each other in passing on the street<br>We age a little every day time of us all takes care<br>And leaves us looking in the end the very worst for wear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A photograph of one I knew from many years ago<br>And he has aged as I have aged time on us all does show<br>We played football together when we were near to our life's prime<br>But in the end we all lose out to ageless father time.</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=567545" data-title="On Seeing A Photograph de Francis Duggan" data-description="A photo of an ageing face stirs an old memory He is plainly not a shadow of the man he used to be His balding head is hoary gray his hair it was dark brown When we played football as teenagers in the park in our Hometown. He was a sprightly youth..."></div> </div> </div>

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