I always told my daddy and people through my life how pinching it felt to be growing older, how I felt the innocence of a three-year-old was dropping out of me. How I didn't really care about getting smarter, when also simply being more serious as years went by.
My daddy later warned that that was inappropriate to tell others when I didn't know the way to take a compliment of my growth; they could think something's wrong with me when I'm not quite yet going along with their perception.
There was one year which specifically worried me above all. Becoming a teenager. I thought I knew my child-like heart was going to take a steeper hormonal, emotional dip.
But now that I turned thirteen, and am no longer guessing what it's like, I feel a more soprano voice as a toddler would animate, and I have a little extra humorous streak seeming to return to me. Maybe it's a second chance of three, to again go through the motions similarly to what I don't really remember being at that age.
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Wow this is a very good poem. I can totally relate to this. That is how I felt when I was turning thirteen when I was your age. Keep on writing poems! You will be a great writer.
Trust me on that part.
I hope you do well in my contest and thanks for entering. Love and Peace!
-Jess
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Great Job on this.
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such an honest/ heartfelt write.
and your 13? wow. i didnt have control over my emotions till i was 16 or older.
thanks for entering.
best of luck -
im so pleased a young person like yourself wrote with such honesty. x
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