The Nature of the Boy Least Likely to - The Boy Least Likely To

It’s always been in my nature

I am at my happiest

Sitting out on the cricket pitch

Eating broken lolly sticks

And raisins covered in chocolate

It’s always been in my nature

It is just a bugabear

It tags along with me everywhere

It pinches me and it pulls my hair

And it giggles and flicks my ears as it pokes fun at me

It nibbles at my fingernails while I’m asleep

I sit on a swing seat in the breeze

Watching the leaves fall off the trees

And even though it looks sad to me

Nature always dies so beautifully

It’s always been in my nature

It is just the way it is

I sink it and it resurfaces

It scratches at my bandages

And it wriggles over all my calluses and sores

It tickles but it doesn’t hurt me anymore

The flowers stick out their tongues at me

Scrabbling around on my hands and knees

As I pick up all the fallen leaves

And try to glue them back onto the trees

I try to glue them back onto the trees