Too Quickly (Cavatina)

Too quickly you are gone like a wilting
small daffodil
that will never again rise up in spring,
that on a hill
faded quite slowly in its sheer beauty,
that never will
come to life again, as its life is spent,
far too quickly from me away you went.

poem by Gert Strydom
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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