When I was Small – Susan Varo – 11/2/1998

Awakened in a giant bed

Hills and mountains

Of covers

On my head

Cloud-size pillows

Propped up there

A long climb down

From way up here

My shoes like islands

On a carpeted land

As I am but

The size of sand

Four cornered sky

When up I look

And towering horizontal shelves

Sandwiched in between are my books

Multicolored fabrics

Hung in a pose

Something for a giant

These are my clothes

Of all the things

That I could be

If only just larger

Where I can see

Those all around me

They’re not my height

Won’t think to look for me

Where I’ll stay for the night

Then I closed my eyes

And I sank down so deep

That I drifted away

And started to sleep

Then I had a dream

That I’d become tall

But that was then

When I was small