Talk. The tale of the winter forest

The day was over. Nils was sad.
He sat at the warm fireplace
and threw birch logs into hot flame.
Nils tried to leave behind the shame
he felt, taking cute Lin cold words.
It seemed there wasn't occasion worse...

His mother looked at him. She marked
the son frustration and came close
to ask what fully took his mind.
But Nils kept silence, hiding storm
in the fast beating bleeding heart.
He could not start the awkward chat.

The mother asked: "Was the day bad?"
"O, no - once fired quite vexed Nils, -
Just tell me, whether you know a-a-a...
lost place, where a blue lotus is..."
"But what's the reason you want one?" -
His mother mumbled completely stunned.

"O, - chuckled then widely smiling Nils, -
It's just curiosity, don't mind..."
His mother took his shoulders in
small hands and looked into gray eyes:
"Don't try to get that fatal place!
There are not chances to be back!"

                by Thea Ariss
                28.08.2025/29.08.2025