A SADNESS

By Debbie Bulloch





















A SADNESS

A sadness creeps into my room
Walking on silent cat’s paws
It crawls on my bed
Wrapping itself around me
Like an old, warm blanket.

I look out my window
Outside lies a world
Where all the colors have been removed
By a sadness that covers me
Like an old, warm blanket.

In another room
A clock tics and tocs away the minutes
But for me time is made still
By a sadness that covers me
Like an old, warm blanket

I close my eyes
And I can see a world that I once knew
Where colors and sounds
Danced in my head
Before a sadness covered me.

Go away, I whisper at the sadness
Go away and let me
But the sadness wraps itself around me
Like a purring kitten
So I hold my sadness for one more day.