When Older Men Younger Men Seek

When older men
Younger men seek
A waiting game
To make an old man meek
Who, when young
In turn was once waited on
Well pass the appointed time
Now choice; care-free abandon gone.

Cleaning out the plastic flutes;
A picnic in the park
With that younger man whose promises fade after
After-dark
The bright rose of summer
Will one day the rose of autumn meet
A waiting game
To make an old man meek.