My Walls Almost Tipped Over!

By Alexandre Pierre, age seven, Madrid, Spain

Mommy, it feels so good!
I feel so free!

It was so hard for me to stay in the house,
All of my energy inside of me,

It was so full and so tight,
My walls almost tipped over!

My energy couldn’t wait any longer to get out,
It tried to get out, but it couldn’t.

There was a very big wall that it was pushing against.
The wall tipped over and broke.

Then, I put three more walls up inside of me,
To hold in my energy.

Those three walls tipped over too,
My energy went out, but I didn’t even know it.

My energy kept trying to get out,
But instead, I built ten walls to hold it in.

The day before we got out of the house,
My energy was trying to get out of the holes in the walls.

It felt like my energy was in prison.
Today, my energy is spurting out!

I am free!