The Returning Older Student

Many years have come an' gone School desire beckons on, Enrollment met, school books bot, Off to College agen I trot.

So much more in this world ta learn! Desire high! "I still can" I yearn! Ain't it grand, a grant obtained! School agen, an' at my age!

Many classes, oh, what choices ... But inside m'head, I hear these voices, "You sure this is what ya want?" (This is hard, not what I thought!)

Wow, computers an' technology ... Teeny boppers past me flee! Graspin' concepts seems sa hard Boy, I dread th' first report card!

Eyesight's weak an' writin's slow And where has gone my git up 'n go? "I can do this--oh yeh, I can!" If only I could hear that man!

Assignments all too soon er due, The materials not really gittin' through. This ol' brain's sorta past it's prime Gotta run now, I'm quite behind!

Taxing ... taxing brain cells dead, I really should go off ta bed! But alas, the trial's comeTest today an' I missed some!

Oh, for want of youth agen ... How I'd do it all differn't then! Study! Study! Get yur degree-For someday you'll grow old like me!