Teenage Years.

How teenage life is...

Don't you DARE tell me

that I have it easy.

Teenagers have it rough.

No bills, no life-support worries.

No children, no spouses.

We weren't prepared for this.

Last I knew, I used a night-light.

My best friend lived down the street,

my favorite time of the day was Big Bird's segment.

We're growing up,

we don't understand.

Everything's new to us.

We don't know how to react.

All I can to is allow the tears to fall.

Friends our only life support?

Please.

I live my life in lonliness.

I remain outside the crowd,

gazing into the lives of others.

I watch my friends crash down around me,

we barely know each other anymore.

That guy that was icky...

is now the reason I'm weak.

Why can't I get over him?

What happened to my friends?

Why is the homework so hard?

Why can't I just think straight for a mintue?!

I don't know what to do.

Nothing ever prepared me for this.

Mom never warned me.

I made mistakes.

I learned from them.

Why can't I just be happy for once?

Just once?

I want a perfect day.

I want to lie in my pajamas and not worry about a thing.

"Easy" is no longer in the cards.

I can't even see straight.

My life is a blur.

Anxiety creeps its way towards me.

I run and hide,

it finds me.

The tears come like a hurricane.

I emerge from this deep well,

into the bright of day.

You can't stop me now.

Author's Note

Not much of a poetry piece...more like my feelings.
All the feelings of a typical (possible lonely) teenager.
I cried while writing this.

Reviews

[Kelly M.]

True, true! Teenager years can be so tough. It's definitely not easy. Everything comes so fast and hard. You don't know how to act and you feel like crying about little things. That's me. That's all teenagers. It's just part of life. All we can do is trust God. :) Nice write expressing all that! :)

[Ashley]

THIS IS SOOOOO TRUE FOR ME TOO! and im older in my teenager years and i still feel like this bullshit. but aye what can we do? lets try 2 take one day at a time, okay? just one day at a time. no worries!

[Ashley June Canfield]

Even though it's not a tradition poem, it fits together nicely