It is a well-written fact 
that one’s old age is a second childhood. 
It is a fact to be written 
That one’s middle age is a second adolescence. 
In second childhood, lethargy looms; one limps. 
In second adolescence, energy blooms; one jumps. 
16.02.2002, Pakd
Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.
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