Growin' Up

This poem asks questions that young teenagers may ask themselves as they are, "growing up"

What's happened to those childhood years

When the dark was one of your biggest fears?

When all you had to do was have mom plug in the night light?

When tears would only come

If you'd trip and fal
and your biggest concert was who took your favorite dol?

When storks still

Delivered babies

And you'd never heard the words;

flirt, witch, tease?

When before you knew who

you could always turn to
Now it's who's with your boyfriend?  Isn't he supposed to love you?

As we grow up life

got so much harder
and it feels like you are always

playing the martyr...

As  you  grow up

So  much energy is spent

And you're thrown into the real world-

no longer innocent.