The Sequence

The sequence - - - - - - - - - - - Begins a sentence; Follows paragraph With comma, colon Question mark, then Full stop and life goes on With events one another In melodious action To be born helpless Greet the light of morn With a sharp wail And then lost in dreams of heaven An infant to a laughing, puling child Now with mirth and mischief Transformed by time’s magic wand Into coat and trousers clad lad Youthful and ambitious, at last a man To devise scheme and plan For gold or for bread And fall in love and wed And then grow Gray and withered To bud, bloom, and pass away Life like a flower Doomed to swift decay Years speed by The flower fares and fades But its fragrance stays……………