04-01-2021, 10:12 PM
Dying Fall
Bright Flora stares in terror at
a lovely tree with blossoms that
float sweetly on a fragrant breeze
and sink. She should be at her ease
but suitor Death’s not one to please:
he waits to make his courting call
and sometimes doesn’t wait at all.
Warm Flora shivers – flowers fall
that’s part of living, petal pall
but here’s a fruit: life never stops!
She screams as, dead, her lemon drops.
Bright Flora stares in terror at
a lovely tree with blossoms that
float sweetly on a fragrant breeze
and sink. She should be at her ease
but suitor Death’s not one to please:
he waits to make his courting call
and sometimes doesn’t wait at all.
Warm Flora shivers – flowers fall
that’s part of living, petal pall
but here’s a fruit: life never stops!
She screams as, dead, her lemon drops.
Non-practicing atheist