Equilibrium is purely a relative thing
Directly proportional to age
As age increases so do the number
Of things in which not to engage

At seventy you can go up on a ladder
But only for three steps or so
At seventy five one step will suffice,
At eighty you don’t even go

At eighty five when you go up or down stairs
Try keeping your hand on the wall
To steady yourself and try not to stumble
To prevent you from taking a fall

At ninety when boarding your prized rocking chair
There’s one thing I think you should know
Just moving too fast in that old rocking chair
Can cause you to get vertigo

Aqualibrium is known as the balance you have
On a boat when a-sailing you go
You can stumble and stagger all over the boat,
And no one is ever to know

That such stumbling could result from the motion
Of the boat rocking over a wave.
Just say you don’t yet have your sealegs
And this way your face you can save.