Effort creates undue stress on knees

Which sometimes doesn't please ...

Felt more often when missed sleep

Affects brain cells and then creeps



Through body reminding of all past pain

Those many times when there was no gain

And forces undesired and totally undue ...

Were felt by body, making mind feel blue



Youth cares not for these then unseen forces

For so many feel indestructible with choices

Made - to engage in some things so very active

Not realizing they'll have their toll and be impactive



Later on, when tired bones and strained muscles

Then plague you with all of those previous hassles

And you no longer feel you are so indestructible

For age has crept up on you, as it's quite inevitable



- Tristram



(c) Christopher W. Thomas

8:35am Monday April 6th, 1998