A/N: Written for the 100_poems challenge on livejournal, poem 55/100 and day 23.


Character Poems: the Chosen through Time
18. Lǐ Xiǎochūn

She wished she was grown up.

She couldn't do much –
was always left behind

But she was safe:
she knew she would have cried.
She had anyway.

Still, she couldn't sit still
when everyone else ran around

And she might be a little kid
but her partner was not

And she had a brother to protect her too.

She wasn't going
to be left behind
this time.