I Am

I am just like everyone else around me, but completely different I wonder how many people have lived on the Earth since the dawn of time I hear a mile-wide meteor landing with the sound of a kitten’s meow I see my gaunt, giddy face on Templeton’s body at the fair I want a remote, similar to that of a television, which controls time I am just like everyone else around me, but completely different I pretend the toy box is a magical treasure chest to thrill my little cousins I feel my skull throb, compressed in a vice I touch a snowflake as big as the sun that never melts I worry that I will never sleep through an entire night I cry for the squirrel who lost his life and for the squirrel who lost her love I am just like everyone else around me, but completely different I understand I will always look horrible in yellow I say hot dogs are not real food and my rubber ducky collection is the bomb I dream of trailing white as I cascade up to my Monkey, to our happily ever after I try on Daddy’s sweaters to feel safer and warm when I combat nightmares I hope the world never runs out of marshmallow Peeps or cardboard boxes I am just like everyone else around me, but completely different