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If a tree could talk, what stories would it tell? even hit us like we cut them we could swing on their
Would it tell us about the past, warn us about the branches and talk all day long if we had a tree that
future or just simply ask us to listen? Trees have would talk. I would make trees my best friend but I
stood silently for centuries but if we pay close don’t know if they will treat me in the same way. We
attention, we might hear their message. have to take very good care of our trees or no one
If a tree could talk it would probably start with a knows maybe one day they start to talk and do
whisper. A sound like the wind brushing through massive revenge on us. It would say “I will not give
its leaves. “Hello!” It might say. “I’ve been waiting you anything. You have done so much to me.” If
for someone to listen.” that happens we would die as we would neither
“I’ve seen the world change,” the tree would have food nor air. So please take care of trees, if
continue its voice deep and rich like the soil they could talk we could have so much fun. Alas!
beneath it. “Once this land was a vibrant forest That will never happen.
filled with the songs of birds and hum of life.
Now, I’m one of the few left standing.” ZEIBA ZAINAB
It might chuckle softly, recalling the antics of 6D
children who climbed its sturdy branches and
carved their initials onto its bark. “They called IF I COULD TURN INVISIBLE AT WILL
me their secret fort, their guardian. I kept their If I could turn invisible at will I would use this
secrets safe, even when they grew up and forgot majestic superpower for good things.For instance, I
about me.” would help people. If someone lost something, I
But its voice could turn mournful as it spoke of would find it and secretly keep it in its place,
the present. “Now I hear the rumble of machines. leaving them wondering how it reached there. I
My friends fall one by one, and the air grows would help a blind person cross the road without
heavy with silence. the soil cries and the streams him knowing I'm invisible from the world.
grow dry. I wonder if anyone notices if anyone I could go to restricted places, like at a museum,
cares!” and enjoy seeing all the secrets unfold before my
“If I could talk to every person, I would beg them eyes. And of course, I would use this amazing super
to understand. I am not just wood and leaves. I power of turning invisible at will for some fun too:
am life, I am a home, I am the breath you take.” like scaring my family by picking up things, letting
And then perhaps the tree would end with a plea. them think that it was floating in the air.
Its voice barely above a whisper. “Listen to the If I were invisible, I would walk through bustling
rustling of my leaves. It’s my way of saying, save cities, becoming the unseen observer of life's
me and you save yourself.” rawness. The more I disappear, the less I would see
Though trees cannot talk, they communicate in who I am. Invisibility would grant me freedom but
their own ways- through the clean air, the shade might cost me connection . The laughter shared by
they provide and the life they support. If we truly friends at a coffee shop, the unspoken gestures
listen, we will understand their silent plea to save between_ _strangers- all captured without
them before it’s too late. interruption. I'd learn the world's secrets: the
SIYANTA ROSE beauty and sorrow hidden behind closed doors and
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question wouldn't be what I could do, but who I
If a tree could talk, it would be so much fun. If we would become. Would I become a hero, a villain , or
don’t have anyone to talk to they can be our best something in between? In the end, perhaps the
friend. It can share its experience of how it lives. greatest power isn't invisibility, but the courage to
The problems it faces, like the burning sun, the remain visible in a world that tempts us to
harsh wind the strong storm etc. it would most disappear.
probably ask us to stay away from it because we
are the ones killing them. There might be good SAARA SALIM
trees and bad trees. Maybe the good trees would 7D
provide us with everything we need. Bad trees
might harm us by not giving us anything. They
could shake their branches and shoo us away or

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