Sadness

Sometimes sadness will find you.

It will come to you at dinner or in school,

or after you lose a friend or someone you love.

It will call you from places

where you don’t expect it.

It will make you feel cold

and small and unloved.

When it does,

take its hand.

Tell it that it is okay

to feel small sometimes.

Cry with it and decide together

that it is okay to break sometimes.

Everyone breaks.

Even the ocean.

Even the storm.

When it has told you

everything it needs to,

it will leave.

Remember to gently close

the door after its shadow.

Remember you are still whole,

even after you have broken for a while.

Remember you are still loved,

the same way people still love

the oceans and the storm.

Because no matter how many times

they break, they always

become whole again.

Just like you.

© Nikita Gill from My Heart is a Poem: Poetry about Feelings (Little Tiger)