A Paper Tree

Have you ever seen a paper tree? You will love it, I guarantee Skipping along inside a park I saw a man with a bamboo bark Flowers fluttering in the wind I ran up to him and grinned A burst of colour spinning around Rustling paper making a sound My eyes grew big and were fixed on two The yellow sunflower shimmering in the sun My heart now going with the pink one Proud owner of pink flower, what fun I noticed a black seed, a bead attached Under soil I immediately dispatched But I did not know then that beads don’t grow I watered it every day, but a paper flower did not show My mother now comforted me as she held my hand And said flowers don’t grow in sand I loved my pink flower, oh so bright I looked at my mother and knew she was right. 18.1.2021