what is age

what is age,
but a number that defines us ?
and what is more puerile than a definition
of age anyways?

how insentient of biased minds are,
to have placed a fabricated label upon the backs
of the young and the old, restricting privilege,
and broadening it also, for others.

they say,
"surely, you're too young for such a conscience
and enhanced personal lexicon...",
but God, nor blessed ancient ancestry,
proposed the overlooking of youthful will.

and just the same, some might add,
"this man is undoubtedly far in his years;
too far for the completion of any form
of any plausible task."

yet he plows his fields and prepares
for the seasonal transitions
of spring, summer, fall and winter,
just like any priming man would.

even more so, one might prominently exclaim,
"see this man, he is ripe in his years!
he has unmatched endurance and strongwill,
which will assuredly grant him great success!"

but what of the boy
and what of the elderly one?
what of them?
i ask you a third time, what of them?

i insist, that man is rightfully just as equal
as Lincoln proclaimed him to be;
and to the Father,
age and time exist not with him.