The Outsiders

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.

-Robert Frost

When I was 11 my sister had to read The Outsiders for one of her classes. I quickly stole it from her and was submerged in a beautiful but harsh world created by S.E. Hinton. I don't have a lot of time to read these days so I settle for the movie version.