The Girl Premonition Poem by Sherif Monem

The little girl in her room
She watched the green tree
through the glass window
It was snowy and cold outside
the night was approaching
The wind was blowing
The white snowflakes were
tossed and flying in the air
hitting the tree leaves
The girl lays in bed sick
Feeling pity for the falling
tree leaves scattering around
Her mother near her praying
She told her mother
Mom I have premonition
If in the next morning
if all the tree leaves fall
I will be heart stricken
very sad and I will die
The tree leaves kept falling
and the mother kept crying
What will happen to my daughter
the next morning come
with all this wind and snow?
The man living floor above
have heard the conversation
at the middle of night
He was singing loud
going down the crack stairs
the girl was awakened
She told her mother
The drunkard man
looks drunk again
She went to sleep
her mother comforted her
then there was peace
the wind still raving
hitting the window glass
As the day morning broke
the girl told the mother
open the window curtain
I want to see the tree
any tree leaves left?
yes, there are leaves
Mom I am cured
Mom I do not feel sick
The mother was surprised
She ran down stairs
close to the tree
She saw the drunken man
laying down covered with snow
He have died through the night
Beside him there was tree branch
With artificial leaves hanging
The mother realized what happened
This man who was singing loudly
over night as he hanged the leaves
The mother hurried up to her daughter
She told her the drunkard man
living in the floor above have died
She told her he was great man
and now you have a new life