I Am

• Anabelle Dashwood, Grade 5
• Poetry
• 2019

I am
I am as awesome as an ostrich.
I wonder what life would be like if I was a different person.
I hear waves crashing against the shore as if I were running along the beach.
I see birds squawking and flapping in floaks.
I want to be able to fly over meadows on a warm spring day.
I am as awesome as an ostrich.

I am as elegant as a swan on a lake.
I pretend to be a ballerina gliding across the stage.
I feel warm as if I were standing in the African dessert.
I touch the scales of a dragon from a faraway kingdom.
I worry about never dancing again.
I cry when I think of dead ones I love.
I am as elegant as a swan on a lake.

I am as awesome as an ostrich.
I am as elegant as a swan on a lake.
I am Anabelle Dashwood and this describes me.