Survive Me, but Forget Me Not

 Survive Me, but Forget Me Not

 

At the wall corner a young papaya seedling

Grew so fast every day almost to the seeing

At first I took it a grass to be

barely could clutch my lower knee

Halloween saw it mark my naval over

 New Year’s day it got round my shoulder

Three months into March, it did march

Waywardly, spread well overhead like an arch

Lily-like flowers began to bud from its armpit

Alas! We left school for quarantine just at it

 

How I miss you, you childhood friend of mine

I’ll miss your flowering and fruiting prime

While you enjoy a fast growing summer time hot

No grass, a tree you stand perennial, but I’m not