Inventions there have been so many
above all,  this I alone most treasure:
over-riding  E=MC Squared really
it's my humble denture!

You've got me
totally wrong
I'm not legendary
nor Promethean -strong

only an ordinary bloke
who've just arrived at the block
with his many frailties and warts
who never has claimed great were his thoughts

I'm growing old
but it's not the prompting
that I've morphed
into a non-being

didn't you read
my writing
or hear
my singing?

Didn't you find me
in the village-dancing?
Didn't you feel
my pulse in fullest rushing?

Yes, I'm old-growing
but in my heart spring is still abiding
when into the night-sky I'm gazing
I can't stop my romancing.

I might be uninteresting

    but am really glad not to be boring

.....but I can't change
    for your sake-
    that would be
    a great moral mistake

    but ready I am--as always
   to walk by your side
   to listen, to empathise
   in faithfulness abide

No
no
no!
I don't want
to be a dinosaur

to be displayed
as an item
in the museum
for public show!

If yourself you truly own

you'd never be afraid

of anything in the world--

in whatever state