I am what I am not
I Am
I am almond flesh
On a skyscraper frame
I am coffee stain eyes, button nose, and ivy curls
I am Peter Pan
I am a skipping stone
I am the imagination of my youth;
The inquisitiveness of thought
I am lost in time
I am a stationary time traveler
I am a freshly stamped letter, a pocket watch, an antiquated photo
I am music unheard by the masses
I am a faulty radio connection
I am a musical, comedy, drama, and a Sundance
I am family dinners
I am cozy laughter
I am wrapping paper and bows, nutmeg and cloves, a chipped tea cup
I am Sonny
I am friendship bracelets
I am a fired S’more, a patchwork quilt, a broken necklace
A community apple
I am a stolen glance
I am a magnifying glass
I am a mirror
I am a Fall hoodie
Smelling of bonfire and football
I am a crisp leaf
I am a brisk breeze
I am an empty wallet
I am a plane ticket
I a a suitcases;
A caged bird
I am a dangling pear,
The impassioned sun kissing the earth
I am the ocean watched by the moon
I am barefoot grass and carnival clouds
I am a novel unfinished
I am words and colored pencils
I am a semi colon, a run-on sentence, an ellipsis for things not yet written…
A size
A shape
A statistic
These things I’m not
A perfect manicure
Adventure-less skin
Braces
A canned tan
These things I’m not
A Twitter
An Instagram
A Tumblr
A fandom
These things I’m not
A mouse
I’m not
Nor a tiger
Nor shark
A disaster of mass destruction
A bitter blizzard
A humid summer’s rain
These things I’m not
A lampshade
A red cup
A ping-pong ball
These things I’m not
An athlete
An actress
A cliché
A brain
These things I am not
I am a culmination of all these things I’m not