My Poems

Growing up (pt2 age)

Growing up, six year olds are being told to act their age.

Let me just roughly translate.

What they really mean is not 'act your age' it's act like an adult.

Like a six year old CHILD is supposed to act mature.

To sit still, be quiet, and back straight have good stature.

All their life they're told this.

No one cares about the childhood they miss.

They tell teenagers not to act like children.

They ARE children!

You think the reason teens act out is because they think so highly of themselves?

In reality these teens are in their most vulnerable time of their lives.

Their emotional brain is growing, hormones haywire.

They aren't a decoration for you to admire!

Their stress levels are too high!

Yet for some reason you wonder why?

Why are they acting this way?

The love they need from you will never stay!

You say they don't need someone to hold their hand.

Actually! They do.

You complain that they never talk to you,

only their friends.

Maybe because the emotional connection you had with them reached its end.

You complain that these kids are rushing into relationships.

Maybe because they're trying to cope with emotional abandonment.

You tell them to act like adults, yet treat them like kids.

They learn not to talk and have bad self-esteem.

Maybe if you paid attention and cared a little more, not act like your parents who called you a whore,

Maybe,

Just maybe, these kids wouldn't be afraid to love anymore.

Maybe they'd spend time with you not just texting on their phone.

Maybe if they really had a home.

And maybe, if you would quit projecting your trauma onto your kids they wouldn't turn out worse than you did.

Find a therapist, get some help.

Before there is nothing else left, that ice around your heart needs to melt.