inside me

inside me there is
air
spit
chocolate
shit
bananas…

inside me there is
music
voices
noises
secrets
my secrets
other people's secrets…

inside me there is
madness
demons
songs
fantasy
rhythm
a famous actor…

inside me there is
bacteria
chewing gum
bitten nails
cigarette ash and smoke…

inside me there is
poetry
words
a library
photographs
my mum and dad and friends…

inside me there is
maps
history
an old man
dead people…

inside me there is
tomorrow
a template
my unborn children
the unborn children of my unborn children…

inside me there is
a snake charmer
a shaman
a faith healer
a rhymer
a pied piper

a plain speaker
a layman
a messenger
a muse

a joker
an angel
a ballerina
a soothsayer
a dragon slayer

a potholer
a rock climber
a salt miner
a plate spinner
a fire starter

inside me there is
Babel
buckets
oceans
a creel of fish
a cathedral
pigeons
a tunnel
kittens
the future
a field of red tulips
the stars
the Louvre
the planets
the stars…

Photo: Keith Pomakis

inside me by J.M.