why poet has said; i was old?

Ancient Hippy answered

Was it this poem?

I Dreamed That I Was Old

Stanley Kunitz

I dreamed that I was old: In stale declension

Fallen from my prime, when company

Was mine, cat-nimbleness, and green invention,

Before time took my leafy hours away.

My wisdom, ripe with body’s ruin, found

Itself tart recompense for what was lost

In false exchange: Since wisdom in the ground

Has no apocalypse or pentecost.

I wept for my youth, sweet passionate young thought,

And cozy women dead that by my side

Once lay: I wept with bitter longing, not Remembering how in my youth I cried.

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