恭喜 親子班 Maria 獲環球報寫作詩篇獎

Mother Nature

Return me my youth

And let us all be young again

Let the world

be young again

And not blackened

by the darkness

of mankind

Return us our youth

and our innocence

of the past

When no one cared

Who

Was

Who

Because no one knew

We were only filled with the

most carefree feeling

Only wanting

to be happy

Just

to be happy

O, the simplicity of joy

That was truly

The Most Beautiful

Moment in Life

Return to us,

Mother Nature

Our youth

And our happiness

The happiness

Of the past

And of the innocent

Maybe if we viewed the world

from unclouded

and unworried eyes

We could see more

Let me be young again

And see more

But then

One day

As I walk down

a worn, battered road

Fallen leaves

dancing along

with the Autumn wind

I see a couple

Hair weathered white

with age

Strolling along, ahead

Smiling

And as I pass them

I look up

and see

A tree

with plain, yellow leaves

Lit up golden

In the sunlight

The sun, a star

Ages and ages away

And I realize

We are still young

—by Maria Zhang