He worked out all his life, healthy as a horse,
strong as a bull.
Super fit, the fittest of all his peers.
Disease free in his fifties from the right diet
and working out daily in the gym.
Still healthy as a horse, strong as a bull, people
marveled at how good he looked.
Cancer in his late fifties, dead at age sixty
despite his superior fitness and the healthy diet
he scrupulously maintained.
His doctor said, “Sometimes you can do everything right
and still get sick.
Sometimes you can do everything wrong
and never get sick.”
Bob Boyd