I walk down the halls

Of the school I go to everyday.

But it's amazing

How different it is

When I close my eyes.

My other senses

Come alive

And another world forms

No longer bound

By that one major sense.

The world around me expands

To notice things in a way

I never did before.

The different smells

Assault my nose.

The fruity scent of lotions

And the manly scent of colognes

Against the lemony scent of chemicals

The janitors use to clean the floors.

I end up hearing

The squeak of shoes against tile

And the thousands of conversations

Going on at one time.

The slam of the lockers reverberate

Up and down the halls

Like gunshots

In the middle of war.

I realize

Just how many people

Brush past me at one time

That I never noticed before.

We go through life

Looking through our eyes

But never really

Seeing the world

As it is.