Tallest and smallest man on earth

I used to think that I was the tallest man on earth

Under the tiger striped sunsets 

I felt infinite 

The fever felt as though it would never form 

under my brow and the sweat of fear would never enter my galaxy

I bit my lip but never encountered the taste of the brassy blood

and I swore on those summers past that I could fly

But my eyes would soon glaze over ;

the world became a lion 

 and I, its sheep

I now think I'm the smallest man on earth

Xoxo Ankita