Green Is My Hope

“You are the April of this world”

——Lin Huiyin（Phyllis）

By Quintus Ni

This winter is a bit long, and the depressed mood is always with me. I still hope that spring will come soon; green is my hope.

Spring is neither the flower or the plant nor the willow bank or butterfly. It is spring if you have a green heart.

In late autumn, when I see a new bud in the heap of dead leaves, I feel that it is also spring. In the early winter, the white snow cannot block a clump of the green; that is the heart of spring. Spring is not just the season. It grows in everyone’s heart.

Even if the grass is growing, the butterflies flying, or the flowers blooming, even if the rain drips on the rose, or if the pears cover the hills, a gloomy mood can always suppress the warm spring sunshine.

Open the curtain that you have covered for a long time, and see the flying bird. That is spring. Outside, the unkept child is sitting on the car with their eldest brother; his smile is also spring. In the street, you see the little girl in the arms of a boy dressed in soft clothes; her shyness is spring. When the white-haired couple helps each other across the road, it is spring.

Finding that mood is a window towards spring. Let the warm sunshine drive you away from the winter haze. Your smile is the scene of spring. You are the spring of the world. “You’re the blooming flowers over the trees; You’re a swallow twittering between the beams. Full of love, full of warm hope. You are the April of this world…”— Lin Huiying (Phyllis)

Green Editor: Luke Langlois