For Many Years I Have Been Poem by Francis Duggan

For many years i have been a rhyming buff
And one can say i have written a whole pile of stuff
And though my best days in life to the forever gone
I must be addictive for to keep penning on
I add to my doggerel count every day
Perhaps i should heed what some of my friends to me say
When they tell me that i ought to give rhyming away
Though to their well meaning words of advice heed i never do pay
For years addicted to penning of doggerel rhyme
Though that in itself is not seen as a crime
I have been penning stuff since in my life's prime
And that is going back near four decades in time
And though now in my mid sixties a gray haired balding aging man
I will keep on penning stuff for as long as i can.