changing bathing habits

The fact is, young and active
bodies
need to be washed more
than old and sedentary ones
alone
a mercy, as
there's often so much more of them
to wash
much more to reach
painful to reach
painful to see
and growing more
each day. So great
to strip off and exult
in suds! Soap off the stink
that you worked up so easily
in younger days, but we
the old
take things more slow.
A nice hot bath
to linger in.
It bears us up
like nothing does

arguably, I'm not that old
but when does one begin?