Your explosion of Colour,
Your fragile Form,
Tenuous Beauty
Soon forlorn ......,
Gone!
And yet
Your hold on Life
Strenuous
In the extreme,
Where the Suns gleam
Does not reach your scene.
Your long green Life
Belies your sunburst Summer,
The long cool shadow
Where Wind does not blow,
And you a Chrysalis
Where your charm
Is ready to transform
This bleak outlook.