SPRING CAME AND WENT

I dove into the pool
without a splash of water
then from the highest height
of the diving spring board

I dived clean
not a drop splattered
none clapped
it was only my self victory

then as summer came
I walked along
the world of poetry
sang a song
no one heard me

in the autumn of my life
I severed off a branch of a tree
just like an autumn’s faded leaf
someone said.
Ah

then in the winter of my life
as snow covered me
they lowered me six feet below
covered with raw snow
then someone said
well now he also has gone

a newer season shall be born
another season gone
he was also one
now truly a bygone