43.

I Love My Body

Thanks legs for walking and running miles.

Thanks legs for running hard sprints,

backwards, forwards, and side to side.

Thanks legs for allowing me to jump.

Thanks legs and arms for allowing me to be like a fish.

Thanks arms for exercising with weights.

Thanks arms for swing the tennis racket.

Thanks arms for swing the bat.

Thanks arms for swing the golf clubs.

Thanks fingers for writing poems and stories.

Thanks fingers for drawing pictures.

Thanks fingers for catching balls.

Thanks fingers for playing musical instruments.

Thanks brain for calculating numbers.

Thanks hands and arms for shooting a basketball.

Thanks arms and legs for allowing me to dance.

Thanks teeth, tongue and lips for working together

to make beautiful sounds that singers and rappers produce.

Thanks ears for hearing the horn of the car.

Thanks ears for hearing the smoke alarm.

Thanks ears for hearing my big mouth sibling.

Thanks ears for hearing the instructions of my parents and teachers.

Thanks lungs for helping me breathe.

Thanks eyes for seeing trouble.

Thanks eyes for seeing all the world has to offer.

Thanks nose for working to smell the good and bad smells.

Thanks body for all of the emotions I have felt.

Thanks brain for being very analytical,

For you have made me a super intellectual.

Thanks body for taking the abuse I put you through to make you stronger. I love you body.