i wrote this blackout poem as a school assignment in fourth grade. my fourth grade teacher told us to write the saddest poem we could with the page we were given. i was given a page about joy and happiness. one of the original lines on the page that i took most of the words from was “deep distress has no place in the thrum of my heart.” along those lines that is. but i changed it, as you can see. so i wrote it about four years ago. that is why the quality of the content is so uh questionable. take no notice of it though. i felt it was best to preserve the memory and nostalgia that this poem brings me by not revising it and keeping it the same as it originally was. this poem means a lot to me because it is actually the first one i ever wrote. the one that paved the way down the road of poetry, if you will. so i hope you enjoy it, find some sort of feeling awakened within you when you read it. that is what it is here for after all.
