"Mom! Come back home soon. Pa had a surprise for you."
The woman chuckled at the sound of the little girls anticipant voice.
"Soon honey. Bye bye. Love you and pa."
Holly sighed, impatiently honking her own horn as she looked at slowly moving vehicles and then watched the traffic lights change from green to red.
Humming a little, she began to type a little something up on a new app she had installed on her phone called Wattpad.
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T R A F F I C
"Red," says the circle.
"Red," says the blinking lights.
A horn or two, perhaps a tad impatiently,
A hoot and a call from the young boys."Yellow," says the circle.
"Yellow," says the blinking lights.
Bright is the time for rest.
Dull is the end of it."Green," says the circle.
"Green," says the blinking lights.
The swish swish of tyres start.
It's time for moving on.________
She was alerted by the furious whistle of a policemen, causing her to hastily tuck her phone back into her coat pocket and throwing a sheepish smile at the frustrated man, drive back home.
Back to her little girl.
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Ever thought about how life could be like a traffic light?
-Zahi 💕
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Poesia✰ a cup of coffee, a cosy old sofa and a little rain drizzling outside. what else do you need? oh right, probably this little compilation of imagination. ━━━━━━━━ POETRY DUMP zahi (2020-21)