TOO SOON THE BUD OPENS

                                       TOO SOON THE BUD OPENS

Dr Abe V Rotor

                       Painting in acrylic (12" x 17")

You come in springtime and autumn,

too eager a bud ahead of your time;

what promise of life awaits tomorrow

from where you've broken through?

Whichever path you take from now,

you'll miss the adventure of youth

in summer, and stillness of winter,

Oh, how could you live to the full?

"For having lost but once your prime,

you'll always tarry," so says a poet;

"It's now or never," so sings a bard,

and I, I've neither a poem nor a song. ~