Innocence

____At least for now, there are a few flowers left on the hill in the sun, and the children still visit every other afternoon. The boy's tend to be the first to leave; few really care, really know about the flowers. But the girls will stay for a couple more years, even though they still don't know about the flowers.
____Springtime brings the masses; the boys and girls will come to sit in the sun and lay in the grass, and they laugh and they sometimes sing the tunes that the air evokes in them. But they don't know that one day soon they will no longer know the air's language, and that one day the grass won't be anything but green.
____None of them visit that hill when the spring passes and the winter months descend. None of them get the chance to see the death of their love, of the days that loved them best. Because at this time, the flowers are all dead, and they won't bloom again until the new children come, and they sit as the old ones on the hill in the sun.
____But no one sees the winter months, here. So no one knows what it looks like when all the flowers die.