Melons and Lemons
such a great tasting fruit, a ripe melon
not sugary, just wonderfully succulent
a sure way to beat the dry summer heat;
so unlike the melon, the humble lemon
you cannot eat it though it smells sweet
but mixed with water it quenches thirst;
the melon you eat, the lemon you do not
the latter you smell, the first you will not;
all things under the sun have a purpose
nothing is greater and no one is smaller
each one with its own unique character;
so pick out the sweet or take in the bitter
some days it shines, on others it pours
that is the way life goes, sweet and sour.
Copyright © Wilfredo Derequito | Year Posted 2007
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