“I Am Me” by Asha Glenn

Asha Glenn (age 7)

I AM ME

I am the daughter of singing and dancing
I am the music that sings you to sleep
I am the wind that brushes against your chest
I am me!

What are you?
Are you the whistle in the wind?
Are you the bird that lays eggs?
Or are you the book that’s blank?
I think that you are all of it.

I don’t remember
when I flew with the
fairies and fell.

from 2017 Rattle Young Poets Anthology

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