Fragrant smile

A fragrance within – that’s how I took birth
Blooming in the wake of a fine morning sun.
Honeyed rays caressing me, and smile did I in crimson red.
Sweet fragrance that wafted with each blooming smile,
Stolen by a breeze into the twilight of love
A love so eternal that I smiled all I could.

Each passing day the sun burned high,
Yet smile did I in sprightly bloom
Somewhere in time, I lost that smile
With the faded fragrance or first petal to fall.
Sweet breeze it did call on for more
As twilight did droop to a bespangled night.

Then one last time, the sun did shine,
Soft zephyr came seeking my sweet fragrant smile
Amongst the red petals strewn on the ground.
Fragrance that died and my faded red smile,
And all this while, special I thought was I !