When you're a kid, you wish for a lot of things, you wish for crazy cool superpowers, you with to be a mermaid, or to shine brighter than every star in the moon lit sky, but you also wish for another thing.
You wish for time to fly by.
You say "I can't wait to be an adult!" as you worry about the more simple things of life, whether you're gonna match with your best friend on the first day, or if you're gonna be popular like the kids in those fake school shows.
Then before you know it.
Time has flown by just like you wished for and now it feels like this one exhausting process, and soon you notice things you never noticed before.
Like how everything can be so underwhelming and overwhelming at the same time.
Like how your eyes now sting with tears as you beg your brain to remember something you've just learned.
Like how everything you thought wouldn't matter now does.
Like how you wish time by but you also don't, because change is scary, because you still need to cry in your mothers arms without feeling like you're embarrassing yourself for feeling, for being a living, breathing, feeling human.
Now you're not a child anymore.
You don't wish time by, you wish for it to stay in the moment, to allow you to soak it up before it's too late, before people you never thought would leave you, leave you, before none of it matters anymore, before you don't matter anymore.
When you're a child you wish for time to fly by, but now I bet you wish you didn't.
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Letters from a teenager with the mindset of an adult
PoetryI write poetry about the little thoughts in my head, hope yall enjoy them as much as I enjoyed writing them!
