My Story Shelf

I decided to ask myself

What if I had a story shelf

With lots of little figurines

Each one to represent

Some memory or present

They would tell my life story

On that shelf I'd hide away

In figures made of wood or clay

I'd be told in motionless expression

A dragon - my favorite creature

A ballerina for an impossible future

A book to show my greatest passion

On my story shelf

I'd be able to show myself

Without ever speaking

It'd be like a silent meaning

In those figurines

Made of solid or delicate means

My very own visual book

Come on in and take a look

And on my story shelf you'd find

Some animals - a leopard, leaping high

All the things that I think mean me

A feather quill to show my favorite thing

I wish I could spend all of my time writing

These are all the things you can see

What about the love I share

How can you know if I even care

Can you see love in the air

And how about the joy I feel

When I'm with the God I know is real

How I just got over some ordeal

On my story shelf

I'd be able to show myself

Without ever speaking

It'd be like a silent meaning

In those figurines

Made of solid or delicate means

My very own visual book

Come on in and take a look

This is my story shelf

It tells all about me

In my inside-inmost self

I should convince everyone else

To get themselves their very own story shelf