The Secret Place (Monday Poem)

by Dennis Lee

 

 

There's a place I go, inside myself,

Where nobody else can be,

And none of my friends can tell it's there --

Nobody knows but me.

It's hard to explain the way it feels,

Or even where I go.

It isn't a place in time or space,

But once I'm there, I know.

 

It's tiny, it's shiny, it can't be seen,

But it's big as the sky at night. . . 

I try to explain and it hurts my brain,

But once I'm there, it's right.

 

There's a place I know inside myself.

And it's neither big nor small,

And whenever I go, it feels as though

I never left at all.

from Poetry by Heart: A Child's Book of Poems to Remember

compiled by Liz Attenborough

Scholastic 2001