Once you gave me violets <br />Whose fragile beauty <br />Lasted but an hour, <br />Then wilted, but fragrant <br />I pressed them, <br />First to my lips <br />Then between the pages <br />Of my diary <br />To remember that day <br />To savour that moment <br />So transient <br />When your love <br />Was fresh <br />Like the violets <br />But, like them, <br />Did not last. <br />Only the memory remains <br />Bruised and crushed <br />Like me <br />Lost in the past <br />Where my hope, <br />And our love, <br />Lies buried. <br /> <br />April 2003<br /><br />Josephine Dunn<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/you-gave-me-violets/
