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Ode to the 19-Year-Old Me

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Is adulting also making you feel chained to responsibilities? This is an honest account of my feelings of regret towards the things I no longer can't achieve because I have my priorities now. Now, just because you remember the "freer" times doesn't...

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Ode to the 19-Year-Old Me

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by juanchorassicpark

by juanchorassicpark

If I could just be 19 again,

I'd still be free and running around -

I'd still be intractable, Amen.

I'd flash back to what was then,

I'd be lost, never to be found,

If I could just be 19 again.

I'd be a vagabond, in a stark wonderin',

I'd still walk the same rebel ground -

I'd still be intractable, Amen.

I'd walk on fire, and fathom disdain,

I'd abide where deviants abound,

If I could just be 19 again.

I'd lie and cry, and dance in the rain,

I'd sing and wail and make a sound -

I'd still be intractable, Amen.

I grieve for 19 years - I had to abstain;

Now I'm stricken in years but bound...

So if I could just be 19 again,

I'd still be intractable, Amen.