I squint up at the smog-laden sky, trying to find a break in the clouds. Trying to catch a glimpse of what exists beyond.
I feel my breath catch in my throat when I see a tiny, twinkling light, high up above me in the night sky.
Just as soon as it comes into view, the star is swallowed up again by the greedy smog..
Did you see that? Did you see the star? I point above me, hoping to see it again.
My friends laugh at me and tell me I'm dreaming. But I barely notice.
I stare up at the sky, not wanting to look away for even a second, knowing that someday, somehow, I'll see behind the smog and live among the tiny twinkling lights in the sky.
A gust of wind ruffles past me and collects a few leaves from the ground, taking them with it as it blusters along it's journey.
I smile to myself as the leaves whirl and flow on the wind and eventually travel way up above my head and into the smog. I whisper to myself, so the others don't hear.
I'm a leaf on the wind. Watch how I soar