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.