Part one: prompt
Small warning, mentions of child passings
Youth is not something we can hold forever, time passes and things age. Everything does. The sky, the birds. The trees, the grass. Even the tiniest of animal life grows grey at some point.
Some, however, don't get the opportunity.
Taken to soon and without warning, their soft, innocent vessels placed into the forever aging ground that they will forever get to walk on. Unaware of the sins of the world, yet being the most affected by them. They will be with the earth long after we will, its their home. All they've ever gotten to know.
Youth, however, seems to attract youth, such is the way of life. The forgotten youth makes friends with the mirrored images of themselves, the ones they never got to be, and never will be. Dreaming of what once was. The lost youth will sit and tell stories with the new, passing down their dreams until... The new no longer can be classified as youth. And the forgotten?
Nothing lasts forever.