Small but not shallow, <br />Placid but not tranquil, <br />Short-while yet worthwhile <br />Was our lives’ sojourn. <br />Admiration and inspiration, <br />Animation and elation <br />Which were witnessed <br />Are all gone to wind <br />When the sojourn came to an end. <br />Each birth ends in death. <br />But horrible is the death of youth. <br /> <br />To preserve to ripen and <br />to conserve to sustain <br />it, is in your hand. <br />26.05.99, Palakkad<br /><br />Rm.Shanmugam Chettiar.<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/preserve-it-to-ripen/
