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I am.

April 9, 2015
By Mickenzie GOLD, Blacklick, Ohio
Mickenzie GOLD, Blacklick, Ohio
11 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.<br /> Leonardo da Vinci


I am a statue made of wind; ivory exterior yet a storm within.
I wonder why, when He chiseled me so, why he made such calm up front and such havoc below.
I hear so many whispers from the zephyr inside,
I see the pictures that they make in my mind.
I want to give them life, heave breath into those fluttering lungs.
I am a statue made of wind; ivory exterior yet a storm within.

I pretend my soul is still, that there is no natural disaster wrecking havoc in my core.
I feel like I live inside my tornado,  I feel like I thrive inside the gale.
I touch those winds I see and ponder I what they say.
I worry that they shall fade away and my hurricane shall deflate.
I cry when I realize they are but thought, fleeting fancies that fall through my fingers.
I am statue made of wind; ivory exterior yet a storm within.

I understand that I must leave them behind, if I wish to thrive.
I say that I cant do without with my storm, that I couldn’t survive.
I dream about these breeze blows, intertwine myself in and out these translucent whirlwinds.
I try to keep them controlled, but they seem to control me.
I hope that they stay, that they eat and consume me as my days count away.
I am a statue made of wind; ivory exterior yet a storm within. 


The author's comments:

I worte this for school, it's the ol' I am poem. I knew that these things could get cheesy quick, so I tried to make it something special. 


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Mickenzie GOLD said...
on Apr. 15 2015 at 7:41 am
Mickenzie GOLD, Blacklick, Ohio
11 articles 0 photos 2 comments

Favorite Quote:
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.<br /> Leonardo da Vinci

Thanks, I'm so glad that you liked it. *Virtual Have-Five*

KayRae GOLD said...
on Apr. 14 2015 at 12:52 pm
KayRae GOLD, Arlington Hts, Illinois
14 articles 0 photos 20 comments

Favorite Quote:
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

this was absolutely amazing