Want

• Tamar Zehavi, Grade 9
• Poetry
• 2018

Six.
I am allowed to choose six but
The world has no number or end.
I’m allowed to know a bit of a bit but
What if I want to know everything?
I want to write but also discover how gravity works I want
To play the piano but also calculate the volume of an imaginary door
I want to
Dodge some balls but also
sketch the movement of the people throwing them
Most of all I want to know why throughout four years
I lost six million relatives.
I want this and so much more but I am given only six little worlds
And I scribble them down
Five for the future and
One for the person I want to think I am.