Protected

She has to protect them. The trees that saved her family.
When her family was falling apart, they saved them. The falling blossoms,
the hopefulness she could feel.
If she could save them, her life would be complete.

When disaster stroke, the cherry blossom trees helped her stay together. They gave security, and love, love that her family couldn’t give her.

They want to cut them down, those trees.
She needs to stop them, because the trees have too much value to her.
She thinks no one cares, so she has no hope.
Until she met him, that is.

He cared, when no one else did.
He wanted to save the trees too, before it was too late.
Those cherry blossoms helped him get new life, and gather his priorities.

She did it. She saved those trees, and moved onto bigger and better things.
Those trees are still there, lining up that hill that so many years ago,  she walked, broken and wayside.
She owes those cherry blossom trees a lot, and she saved them, which is enough for them.