My world feels small today
Smaller than yesterday
Smaller than the day before
I’m shrinking as the world around me grows
I was a mouse yesterday
Now a cockroach
Tomorrow an ant
And who knows how much smaller after that
I wasn’t always this small
It wasn’t long ago I was an elephant
Roaming through a cul de sacs of ant hill bungalows
Bursting at the seams of the world
Around me
Now I’ve shrunk again
I need someone to pump me up
Gas me up
Reinflate me so I can stand up tall