A guest post by Emma Tobin

This is a poem written by my daughter Emma. Emma is 15 and she is the most talented writer, as yet undiscovered but something tells me that 2013 is her year. This is a poem she wrote following our failed attempts at sending Chinese lanterns skywards on New Year's Eve 2012:

Reality

We flail beneath a starless sky

Lit with bright dots burning

Sending wishes high

But ours are soggy

Weighed down by reality

too close for comfort

Flames lick at our hands

Even as the cold bites

them from behind

To spite the inevitable

With that priceless determination

We shout ‘bring it on’

Wind blows

Flame flickers

Damp dissolves

Our hopes and our dreams

But with great resolve

we send them high with our

blazing hearts soaring

Far from the reach of reality

Emma Tobin

January 2013

Copyright: Emma Tobin 2013