Halfway Down (Monday Poem)

by A. A. Milne


Halfway down the stairs
Is a stair
Where I sit.
There isn't any
Other stair
Quite like
It.
I'm not at the bottom,
I'm not at the top;
So this is the stair
Where
I always
Stop.

Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up,
And isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in the town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head:
"It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!"




from When We Were Very Young
by A. A. Milne
illustrated by Ernest Shepard
E . P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1924