Changes

    I hate changes, I'm afraid of the future that will come with it. Why can't things stay as they are? Why must things change? The block I once lived since a kid, I don't recognize it anymore. The people I knew are gone, the stars at night are different. I'm in a different world. A world that I no longer recognize. Why is this? Why must things be fine in one day then in the next I'm in a completely different world that I no longer know? I hate changes, I'm the only one who sees them. As I walk in the streets with all of these unanswered questions. A man walks by knocking me down.
    "I'm truly sorry! here let me help you up" he said as he grabbed my hand, pulls me up, and glares into my eyes.
     At that small moment time stood still. Everything stopped changing time went back and not forward. He was someone I knew before time started to move.
    "Hey long time no see" he said trying not to blush
    From that day on we talked more then usual we found out we had a lot more in common then we thought. We talked about old times. After a few days I'm feeling this weird feeling. Am I in love? This can't be I can't change along with the rest of this world! I must stay the same, I'm the only thing that's the same from the past left! I can't change. He asked me to marry him!!!
    "I do"
    Why did I say that? I don't want to change along with the rest of the world. Flower peddles fills the path as we walk down the aisle. I've changed.... Why did I change? Now there is nothing left about the past. The only thing left is the future, hopefully we can make it a good one.

-Noelia Encarnacion
-photo by Noelia Encarnacion

Hiking in the 100 acre woods

I hike in the 100 acre woods wondering where am I, where am I going. The sun beams down on me as I look for slightest sound of water rushing down a waterfall. I hear birds chirping and bugs swarming around me. I can feel the soft ground under my feet and the sound it makes when I step on a leaf or a branch, how it crackles in my ear gives me such delight. The smell of true fresh air surrounds the sky's. Clouds form pictures so beautiful. I see a dog, over there is a castle, and that one looks like a buttercup flower. The wonders of the Sky fills my soul. Soon darkness appears and theirs no escape. "PLIT PLAT PLIT PLAT" Rain falls "BOOM CRASH, BOOM CRASH" Lighting frightens the birds as they take their little ones and hurries in the nest. I hide in a nearby cave where I enjoy the sound of natures works. "Why dose water come from the sky?" I ask myself. "If we have water on the ground, why do we need water from the sky?" "BOOM CRASH!!!" The lighting crashes in a nearby tree falling blocking my only escape. I shivered in fear hoping someone will save me from this nightmare. How can nature be so cruel? Why did it create energy that comes from the sky? "PLIT..... PLAT..... DROP" It's stopping everything will turn back to normal. I hear a chain saw cutting down the tree which blocks my path. There stood mom and dad with worried faces as I lay on the ground not being able to move nor speak. Everything is going dark goodbye mother and father at least I saw you for the last time. I hear a voice in the background "This is the girl who was lost for months looks like she didn't survive long enough..."

-Noelia Encarnacion