This poem is about a little girl trying to understand why everyone she loves is leaving as they grow up and chase their dreams. It demonstrates that aching feeling someone may get when a person they love leaves. Still, it displays how the little girl slowly shifts her perspective, learning to see their leaving in a more hopeful and understanding way.
“Why is everyone disappearing?”,
the little girl asked
sobbing in her mother’s arms.
“Why does everyone have to leave?”
She was confused and lonely;
she didn’t understand.
To her, for loved ones
to “follow their dreams,”
people must disappear for a little while.
The little girl felt the sadness settle in.
She squeezed her sister’s stuffed animal tightly,
searching for comfort
in the scent that still lingered.
Her built-in best friend left her—
and the little girl did not understand
why she wasn’t sad to go,
”Mommy, why was sister excited to leave me?
I miss her.”
Her mother understood the pain,
but who was she to tell her
”That’s just the way life is.”
As they sat down at the dinner table
saying their prayers,
the melody sounded a key off tune
and that’s because
her sister
wasn’t there.
Longing for their late night convos,
and how they’d giggle over nonsense.
She missed all their memories—
but mostly,
she missed knowing
that fewer were left to make.
The aching pain returned.
”Does this mean you have to go?”
Yes—another built-in best friend
was leaving again.
But this time,
all she wished
was that he’d chase every dream,
and find joy,
in that new place
he would soon call home.
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