Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
Just because I’m small
shouldn’t mean I cannot come
I’m small, but very big
and I want to have some fun
If you’d just wait and help me
Down this hill then I’d be right
I only need your hand a minute
It won’t take all the night
Then once I’m down this hill
I can run as fast as you
And jump as fast, and shout as loud, as …
STOP! STOP! WAIT. I’m coming too.
