A Little Flower

by Hannah

I am a little flower seed planted underground. Oh, what a good stretch! I was getting sort of tired being underground with all of the beetles and bugs. Their legs really tickled when they walk over me. Oh, it feels so good to be out in the open! I love the smell of the fresh air. It feels so good when you breathe it in. Hey, my petals are opening! SUNSHINE! What's that? Are we underground again? It's dark, I mean really dark! Yahoo! It's bright now! I was scared when that thing occurred last night. It was also king of cold, but then Mom told me that it was called nighttime so then I wasn't scared at all. My Mom is the greatest! It is getting hotter as the days go on. I love spring so much! OUCH! What was that? Brrr , it's cold and wet. I think it's rain. What a good drink! It is getting dark now and I have to close up my petals. It is now summer and it is so HOT! I think I like spring better, a lot better. Now someone has to come out every other day and almost drown me with water because of the heat, but I do get to stay up longer because the days are longer. It is fall. It is getting cooler these days. The tree above me changed colors. I am starting to get wrinkles in me and one of my leaves fell off the other day. My Mom is getting very old. Almost all our leaves are starting to fall off to the ground. Well, it's getting darker now. My colors are fading. The days are getting shorter. Now it is very cold because it is winter. I am alone because my Mother died yesterday. All my other leaves have fallen off and three of my petals have fallen off, too. Brrr, it's cold! Oh, there go my other three petals! Great! I'm bald! Slowly I feel my body drifting to be recycled into new baby flowers. Ahh! What's that? Someone just stepped on me. I am underground, soft and cozy. Up there it's snowing and very cold, but down here I'm safe.