RED APPLE

By Aziz M. Tehrani  

azizallah@gmail.com

Mashhad, Iran                                                                                                       

Red apple, why are you crying?

I am ripe but  nobody eats me! 

I will be rotten, if I am not eaten!

See how appetizing I am !

My colored skin sweet smelling like heaven angels.

From the moment the gardener planted the seed

I was thinking of you ! 

To serve you some day,

And to keep the doctors from you away.

For numerours weeks I have been sitting on a branch.

Beaten by many windstorms,

But God preserved me for your health.

Now I am ready .

Eat me , peel me or not.

Peel me but not waste me.

Eat me slowly and tast me.

Bite me like you bite other appetizing things!

Don’t throw me away half eaten.

And always remember , the saying:

"An Apple A Day Keeps The Doctor Away."