English project: "Melody: An Inventory of Being" (2010)

Melody: An Inventory of Being

I am Melody.

I am fourteen years old.

I am a girl and an animal rights advocate.

I am a wolf waiting to howl.

If I stand very tall I am four feet eleven inches.

I have honey brown eyes,

And a long, curly, blackish brown twisted braid.

That gives me a hard time.

When I am relaxed, I let it out in a ponytail.

Curly.

But sometimes, when I seem to see the world in black and white and feel calm, I wear it straight down.

Like a willow tree.

I am a spy, a simple breeze, and a leader.

Never quite popular, but somehow unique.

I love summer holidays and I hate heat waves.

I like small, carpeted rooms with open windows and a desk.

And the wind... it helps me think.

I love the first spring sprouts, summer energy, and fall breeze.

And I don’t like geometry (but I won’t tell anyone)

And I will continue on in Writing,

Because I like it.

I love cooking, but I hate meat.

I love nature, books and horses.

And I want a horse.

And to get baptized.

To be needed.

But not quite yet.

I want a barn with animals and a backyard with a garden.

And I will get them.

(When I am stronger)

And mature.

I got to worship and am not in with “the crowd.”

(Only from the distance)

I’d like to be accepted

But I like cleaning up litter

And hate vampires and makeup.

Running is fun.

Sometimes, people scare me, no ethnicity,

Yet human tendencies.

I love the stillness of the water, but I would never miss a storm.

I often wonder why or how, but even now I know the answer

Will only come with time.

My name is Melody and this is 2010.

(Actually published February 6, 2018)