THE GOLDEN AGE

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There is a very special police services program for senior citizens called Triad. A triad is a three-sided thing. In this case, it is an agreement between the sheriff, the police chiefs and the senior citizens to work together to improve police service to the elderly people within a county.

As people grow older, it can become difficult for them to look out for themselves. That is why our police will go out of their way to protect them from crime, abuse and fraud. That is why we support programs like Triad.

This poem is the lyric of a song -- a ballad. It was written by me and a senior citizen who has worked very hard to bring the Triad program to New York -- Bob Cutler of Middletown, New York.

Bob and his wife Shirley have since passed away, but the Triad program is going strong in New York.


SOMEDAY, THERE'LL BE NO MORE OLD FOLKS
(For Bob and Shirley Cutler)

Someday, there'll be no more old folks.
Like the seasons, they come and they'll go.
You'll turn and you'll search for their faces;
The faces you knew long ago.

Go looking in every direction.
Look around and look high and look low.
Search everywhere all the world over
And you'll come up with nothing to show.

It isn't that you have misplaced them.
It isn't that they have got lost.
But rather, it's time that's erased them.
As sunlight will melt away frost.

Look around at the things that they authored;
All the things that are lasting and true.
Look at all of the things that they cared for.
Remember that one of them's you.

Take a moment to ponder that thought, now.
Think of all of the time that has passed.
Think of all of the years you've been living.
Did you think they'd go by quite so fast?

That's when you'll feel that they're present
And never did leave you at all.
When you see yourself old in the mirror.
When your winter's succeeded you fall.

Someday, there'll be no more old folks.
Like the seasons, they came and they'll go.
Yes, someday there'll be no more old folks
Except you and me, don't you know.

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