The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon

chose a boy

to teach

The boy and his balloon

learned to overreach

The Red Balloon

chose a girl's blue peer

to follow

The boy and the girl

will get to know tomorrow

The Red Balloon

valiantly saved

the boy

From the older guys who always

Face the younger ones as toys

The Red Balloon

was trampled

and died

The boy lost his strength and

lost his best friend, and cried

But soon

he was surrounded

For a million other balloons

In every color, for all grins,

they lifted the boy

Over all sins

The boy and his friends

floated above the cities

to the blue sky with no limits

and the bright light with no ends