Sad Book

This is me being sad.
Maybe you think I’m happy in this picture.
Really I’m sad but pretending I’m happy.
I’m doing this because I think people won’t like me if I look sad.

 

Sometimes I want to talk about all this to someone.
Like my mum. But she’s not here anymore, either. So I can’t.
I find someone else. And I tell them all about it.

 

From Michael Rosen’s Sad Book: A Beautiful Anatomy of Loss, Illustrated by Quentin Blake.