I'm Gonna Build Me A Body

Dear K, Something wonderful has happened to me in the last week. I've remembered how much I love moving. It started with dancing,as all good things do. I went out for an evening of dancing and came back a younger me than I've seen in years. I am running again. I joined the YMCA. I've been lifting weights. I lifted so much my arms hang down by my sides, loose little dumb things that can't grip or raise or move, and they wake me in the middle of the night screaming in pain. I'm doing it right. I used to be so strong. I could lift a house and sweep underneath it. I could ride my bicycle faster and further than any man in the county. I was Hercules, I was Ajax, I was Achilles, I was Hector, I was Zeus, I was a mighty hundred armed giant. Then somewhere along the way I left my sinews. I dropped them by the side of the road. I told myself someday I'd be back for them, there wasn't enough time. I'm finding them again, slowly, it is going to take some months, but I will be bigger and stronger than I ever was. I will throw you up in the air and catch you in my arms and run a hundred miles, and laugh and giggle the whole way. I am building myself a body. I am going to become a beast of the earth. I am going to become a buffalo, a bull, an elephant. I will be Atlas and hold the sky up for you, K