Red and blue and yellow and green

With the loud cheers of Happy New Year

Children smile while being tucked into bed

Knowing there is nothing to fear

Once blossom like the flower,

Shapen like the moon

And soon it will be the mushroom

Red and… and… and grey

The cheers have died down

Left with smoke and fire and tears....

You love the trees

But you want the forest

But do you realise

No trees no forest

You wish you were a bird

So that you can be above it all

But you are just a girl

Whose steps rustling the leaves

The rush to the other side

The anxiety of wondering whether you’ll make it

You lost sight of the forest

But you have the trees....