And Even More

I saw my hands getting lost: (1)

Their size never amazed me

too big for my body.

I dipped them into a new task:

capturing

june bugs

in winter. (2)

I imagined the unimaginable.

My hands are still too big.

My eyes even bigger.

Yet I learned to love the grit

under my fingernails. (3)

I cannot explain

because words

In plain meaning

corrupt the truth of

metaphor. (4)

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1. I sometimes am a bit too giving I feel like I have nothing left over for myself.

2. I have always had a strong imagination and get lost in my thoughts so I remember the stories my father would tell me growing up and how I wanted to make stories of my own.

3. I wanted to show that there are imperfections in myself as well as a determination that I am learning to love as I grow up.

4. I sometimes think that there is more truth in metaphors than in plain sentences because life is full of metaphors, staring us right in the face that we just do not see.