December brings a garden wake

I compare this broken yesterday
to all the broken flowers
for every year their colours break
December brings a garden wake

And even should we crave no
more
Content within the bitter black
Today regardless comes again
lush colours sprout, they all
come back
To rise above athrititic aches
to flourish, bow, again to break
And so it goes and so it goes
December brings a garden wake

M P 3/11/22