It’s Not That I Haven’t Tried, Lord

Time for Teshuvah, eh,

Yom Kippur and the yearly turn-around? Leave the tarmacked roads of the past

for unmarked roads in the geographia of Life.

It’s not that I haven’t tried,

but old ways are best.

I’m too old for new beginnings: 

that’s for the next generation.

It’s not that I haven’t tried:

there was that Weight-Watchers Club last year... we all schlepped along to the Family Service once- it wasn’t a success,

what with missing ballet, football, golf, lunch-

we were all teed off and that’s a fact.

Of course, it was different in our parents’ day,

but we have to move with the times.

Let’s face it, changing direction right now

just doesn’t make any kind of sense.

I know You understand.

Can that kid blow the shofar. 

Am I ready for dinner!