I Don't Feel Like Going to School Today: Day 4 NaPoWriMo

Writing prompt: Write your own sad poem, one that achieves sadness through simplicity. Playing with the sonnet form may help you – its very compactness can compel you to be straightforward, using plain, small words.

I Don't Feel Like Going to School Today

I don’t feel like going to school today

I’d rather stay home, I’d rather just play

I really don’t feel well just look at me

My eyes are beet red and my tongue is green

My tummy’s upset, swooshing and swirling

My head is pounding, twisting and twirling 

I want nothing to do with that new school

To make me go there would be mean and cruel

My old school is fine, my friends are all there 

Why did we have to move? It’s just NOT FAIR!

I don’t feel like going to school today

I’d rather stay home I’d rather just say

My heart feels broken from moving away

I’m just too sad to go to school today.