Joy

• Ayele Nyanzu-young, Grade 8
• Poetry
• 2014

Happy like heaven, hunting down joy
Always allowing awesome things to appear
Daily delight in good deeds
As happy as Larry, it's not scary

Glad and graceful and gleaming like glitter
Joyful and joyous freedom unlike jail
Pleased as punch, pouring like rain
Thrilled and tickled to bits, not tame

Behold it is brave and bold the best
Like kings in kingdoms, as cute as kittens
Finding favour for everyone jumping like a frog
Flying and sighing, trying to be the best