"If I could fall into the sky, do you think time would pass me by...?

‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles if I could just see you….”

Preface: Today the babies ripped up the envelope Eoin Colfer sent me his proof of The Fowl Twins in. Basically the coolest piece of mail I've ever received from anyone ever is utterly destroyed. And so I wrote a poem about it.

Sadness Is

By Amelia Rose

For Eoin Colfer

Sadness is

            Falling.

                Down

                    Down

                        Down

            And scraping yourself

                  On the cold hard ground.

Sadness is

            Waiting.

                 For Godot to come

                      But he never does.

Sadness is

Being ditched

                 during a game of hide and seek

 with your friends

                    who aren’t really friends at all.

Sadness is

            The death of a loved one

 Missing the bus on the first day of school

Losing the twenty dollar bill in your back pocket

Not having anyone to sit with in the lunchroom

Getting in a fight with your best friend

Not getting cast in the play you auditioned for

Sadness is

            Missing the one

      You’ve loved

           And lost

                          And watching them live their life happily

                               Without you.

Sadness…is.