The Impatiens Are Dying Poem by JAMES T. ADAIR

The impatiens have lost their pink
Have lost their lavender too, I think
Where did their beautiful colors go
Where did they run to, I wish to know

Some say it's that Fall has come
But impatiens don't need much sun
Some say it's the coming of the cold
but the fading colors remind me of old

The stems, once delicate and thin
Look straining and thick
The flowers blanched and shrunken
But the colors could not stick

Why does beauty have to fade
Why does it seem so sad this Fall day
As thing I once loved too
seem to be fading away

I look at the flowers I planted just this Spring
and note their uncerimonious passing
Not a bird in the air does today sing
Why is everything dying

It's days like today I lose my will
I feel so weary and ache from trying
Today I'm seeing it all around
there is no denying, my own lifetime is quickly flying
as the impatiens are dying