Serious Business

 Pancakes,

 

Pansies...

 

Purple Clover (or alfalfa;) but its hard to rhyme alfalfa!

Pancakes, pansies, purple clover

Yesterday’s new hat

Suddenly we’re one year older

Just like that

Showers, flowers, tears and kisses

Pour from nature’s vat

Little girl becomes a missus

Just like that

Little becomes bigger, bigger

Kitten becomes cat

Boy become a ‘father figure’

Just like that

Sing, for we have seen the morning

Fling its welcome mat

Love crowns us king and queen, darling

Just like that

Let’s not worry about money

Past is growing fat

Time could foreclose on us, honey

Just like that

Pancakes, pansies, purple clover

Rhyme-and-chime combat

Someday it will all be over,

Just like that

© Janet Martin