A Cure For Old Age

I need a cure for old age

besides the obvious, terminal.

A couple of possibilities are

delusion and utility:

Combat age with modern science

and exercise to feign youth,

delusion mounting by increment

to simulate feeling great;

Or act as some old people are:

consuming fires of self-expense,

helping their kind improve the world.

I’m going to aspire to a little of each,

long-lingering life, largely alone,

spent with some value to others.