It is time to pack and leave <br />With all that I believed <br />Professed and practiced <br />Yet committed and promised <br /> <br />I have seen childhood <br />And fully understood <br />That life shall not be easy <br />And has to keep all the time busy <br /> <br />The period of innocence too passed <br />So much wealth too amassed <br />It was enough to last long <br />For family and children for song <br /> <br />Now I look back and smile <br />Count those hard days too meanwhile <br />There is no remorse <br />For any reason to remember with curse <br /> <br />Yes, spring has gone <br />And autumn has set in <br />I may stick to the period allowed <br />The journey for other land may be followed<br /><br />hasmukh amathalal<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-spring-has-gone/
