The Frail Duration of A Flower

~Burning bush, is kinda
Tropical looking this morning...:)
or maybe I'm just cold!!

~...Smit with those charms, that must decay,
I grieve to see your future doom...

Unpitying frosts, and Autumn's power
shall leave no vestige of this flower...
~Philip Freneau

~From morning sun's and evening dew's
at first thy little being came;
the space between is but an hour
the frail duration of a flower...
~Philip Freneau