I Am Forest

• Anita Elnami, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2016

I am Forest
I am forest.
I can see thousands of green trees being blown by the wind. I can see huge animals tumbling towards me as if they are breaking me apart. I wonder if anyone else is out there. I can hear people talking to me one by one, as I look up to the sun shining so bright, causing speckled light on the ground through the trees. I can hear nature showing me the way to go. I look further and nature brings me to a majestic waterfall running through my centre.
The one thing I hold to be true is that no-one can stop you from what you’re doing. I feel freedom as I am among the trees. I look through a door into the future. The future looks colourful and I can smell strawberry mixed with a pinch of water melon. I look again and see birds whistling and humming.
I look through another door and discover horrible people chopping the trees and burning them. A mist surrounds me. I fall and see animals in a cage. How would you like it if you were in there and couldn’t move? I look through another door and all the trees are gone with nothing there but burnt grass.
I am the forest and I would do anything to save my trees and wildlife, no matter what it takes.
I will never give up until they understand that forest came before everything.
I am forest.