You are…
You are the beginning,
You are a photo a frozen memory in time, slowly fading away,
You are a mountain, a beautiful disaster, crumbling away at every soft step,
You are a fox with pine eyes with specks of the sun,
You are the difference between a child’s smile and a warrior’s cry,
You are a book before it is written,
You are a baby’s first steps and it’s first fall,
You are a similar as thunder and lightning,
you are the imagination that winds through a child’s brain,
you are the suspense before Christmas,
you are the knowledge of things we shall never get,
you are a lost memory,
you are happiness put into a jar,
you are forever…
What a lovely poem, Lila, it’s full of imagery. My favourite line is, “You are a mountain, a beautiful disaster, crumbling away at every soft step,” I love the way it evokes the beauty and danger of a mountain. I’m sure you know the difference between it’s and its. Which one should you have used in the line about the baby’s first fall? Great work, we’re looking forward to reading your next poem!
I absolutely love the imagery of ‘a fox with pine eyes’. For me it evokes the smell and feel of damp woods in Autumn.
This really is an amazing poem I love the ideas and all the great vocabulary!