Little By Little

• Izabel Murray, Grade 5, Nixon Street Primary School
• Poetry
• 2013

Excellence Award in the 'Dream Big 2013' competition

I heard the sound of the water on the leaves
dripping off the trees.
I saw the lush green trees everywhere like a painting.
I saw birds flying over me in the canopy of the trees like a sea of green
I felt the wind in my hair and squashy ground
underneath me.
I wondered how the world was this beautiful and why we destroy it little by little
Everyday