Lost Balloons

• Louise Nguyen, Grade 11
• Poetry
• 2020

A plethora of clandestine hopes and desires
Floating in lost balloons through the sky.
The things we held on so dearly
Drifting away right before our eyes.

Visions of tarnished gold and wishes
Made upon stars in the hush of night
Forsaken amongst empty skies.

Spending our whole lives,
Dancing on the edge of paradise.
Hope clouding the lines between virtue and vice.

But we dare to dream,
Under a sky of lost balloons,
Full of promises forgotten but never broken.