COMPLETED

Completed my birth, early at that
Completed my childhood, raucous it was
Completed my teens, drove a neat car
Completed my Service, Uncle Sam was glad
Completed my Masters, got to have a job
Completed my marriage, thirty-six years is a lot
Completed my second, add thirteen to that
Completed to learn "the this" and "the that"
Completed the hard knock school of survivorship
Completed to know most of the good and the bad
Completed enough wisdom to handle myself
Completed the insight to learn how to judge
Need to Complete my third to
Complete one more year for fifty you know.

Herbert Holzbauer
© April 2001

Midi: "Bigboy-MP"
Composer: Bert Hilby