The Thing That Sat With Me

Describe an item you were incredibly attached to as a youth. What became of it?

A square box

with a bump on its back

a little too heavy

a little off track

Tom smashed a Jerry

handed it to me

cartoon cracked magic

curiosity free

I wired it up

let the silence ignite

asked a typewrighter

Can you make this light

The screen learned to glow

sharp happy snappy

It turned into power

and I turned scrappy

It came with a drawer

wide mouthed and brave

where round little biscuits

would quietly behave

It breathed out heat

like it worked overtime

blinked once

blinked twice

said

Now its your time

Click after click

my fingers would race

joy doing parkour

all over my face

Each sound a promise

each tap a key

unlocking a version

of future me

Then days ran faster

years hit the gym

its brothers grew thinner

sleeker more slim

Muscles to circuits

weight learned to flee

progress on a treadmill

chasing speed

It made me a fighter

trained how I think

taught me to stare

and never just blink

Then one day it wandered

as all things do

to another house

another view

But what it installed

never left my skin

not software

not wires

but how I begin

Life with it

wasnt use or a hobby

it was art school

disguised as a hobby

Now its children are lighter

smarter more snappy

I dont call it a computer

I call it

lappy