Poems

Left Side Right Side

Left Side-
I am not a math test or a scientist. I am not a mathematician or a perfectly linear paragraph. I am the way you know how to color inside of the lines and not to fall off your bicycle after the second time. I am the reasons you can smile eighteen different smiles. The reason you can hold a book in your hands and play baseball for the first time is because of me. I am how you can play with puzzle pieces and remember the name of your babysitter. I am the one who lets you win at Poker and Checkers. I am vocabulary and verbose because I cam be. I am analytical and you depend on me to decode sequences and complicated texts. I am how you exchange looks at someone. I am probability and your best bet on learning their name. I am how you get up in the morning and go to sleep too late sometimes. I am seconds and minutes and hours and months and years. I am how you made time. I am how you know it runs out

Right Side-
I am not an artist or dancer that is on television. I am the vibration through your finger tips in clinking wine glasses. I am the reason you smile eighteen different smiles while counting the crayons in your box set. The reason you can yeam for something is because of me. I am the muse of who you want to be - every penny you've ever thrown into a fountain is my body. I am swimming in the ocean for the first time and getting salt up your nose. I am stepping on abandoned snail shells and preferring the green lollipop over orange. I am the reason you fill a blank page with everything you've ever felt. I am the movements in your cheeks and thighs when you race down hills. I am why you are excited on Christmas. I am the reason why you want to travel to Italy and Greece and Australia and Madagascar and Bali. I am how you perceive the world. I am not time. I am how you know you'll never have enough of it.