To Pretend

Don't ask to the sun
to shine for two days
it can't... there's the night.
Don't ask to the leaf
to be immobile
it can't... there's the wind.
Don't ask the man
to live forever
he can't... there's death.
Don't ask me
to stay eternally a child
I can't... life is waiting for me.

(Jenny Kurti
Naim Frasheri High School
Durres, Albania)