In my small palms are hibiscus

Pink and green like me

The sap between my fingers is viscous

And I play with it in glee

The sun warms my legs so affably

And I run my fingers through the grass

I run in the meadows happily

Picking crocus fragile like glass

It was years of this

The hues and colours of time

A memory of verdure bliss

So lost yet always sublime

Imelda Wellington