Melancholy

• Ava Fraser, Grade 8, Santa Maria College -
• Poetry
• 2020

Excellence Award in the 'The Inside Story 2020' competition

They say that happiness will find you,
But I think sadness finds you too,
It sneaks up on you in darkness,
Just when you think you’ve made it through,
It opens holes in what was solid ground,
The kind you never know were there,
Until you go to take another step,
And find your standing over thin air,
The world around you passes by,
In blurs of color and sound,
Nothing around you makes sense,
As you continue your plummet down,
You can’t remember how it started,
And you don’t know when it will end,
But you know that you’d give anything,
To stand up on your two feet again.