His hands lie resting avoidant, anxious like trapped dust on top of the shelf waiting to be swept His eyes turned away looking at the plaster wall as if the wall was his only companion in the room His smile is hidden from its owner scared of the punishment it may face His heart is overcomed by all the talking in brain, all the **** thinking like a diseaseΒ Β His knees bends like a single corner of a shy square His whistles are often quiet but when frustrated they are balloons getting furiously poked by a needle His footprints are subtle small occupants of my mind, and he is my everything Yet if he would be in my heart, his square shyness would not fit in my round heart
inspired by an simon armitage activity in a creative writing class in SFSU.