"I Am Gossip"

I am Gossip. I hurt people, create hate and rumors.

My name spreads like a cold.

I go in and out of mouths,

Making people hurt,

Scared,

Sorry,

Mad,

Angry

And curious.

This is what I do.

I am a deadly thing. The words I say are horrible.

They can lead from one thing to another with me.

I can say something nice one minute

and awfully mean the next.

I can be sneaky

Or caught right on the spot.

No one likes me.

They hate my words and my lies.

I get people upset all the time with my cruel looks and rude

Comments.

I get everyone talking when I start something with someone.

Everyone wishes I didn't exist.

They wish I would go far away and

Never Come Back.

I am Gossip.

This is what I do.

~Abby English

This beautiful, talented, kind, funny, intelligent, quirky wonderful young woman starts high school tomorrow. I can only wonder one thing:

Where did my baby go?