My little brother, Sam, doesn’t think leprechauns are real – can you believe that
Green, lucky, rainbows, pots of gold
How can they not be real
After all, green is a color, rainbows shine in the sky, luck happens and gold can be put in pots
So they must be real if all those things are
Maybe, in reality, humans aren’t real
And leprechauns are
I mean, it seems like they’re dependable, showing up every March and on cereal boxes the rest of the year
People, on the other hand, can be unpredictable, cancel plans, and go absent for years on end
Leprechauns spread joy; people can spread hate
In fact, they can seem quite fake
So can you really say leprechauns are not real if people are fake
I don’t see how Sam thinks leprechauns aren’t real
I guess you just have to believe

Adapted from the book Three Ways to Trap a Leprechaun by Tara Lazar. p.1, line 1.
Prompt from 2020 Poetry marathon. Hour 12.