Being Twelve

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I remember being 12

wanting to be 13

so I could finally be a teenager;

before I knew everything that would happen after,

before I knew my time would elapse

and everything would come to a standstill.

Somehow I was blinded by my viridity

and life is running past me

but I can't seem to catch up

to being 17,

never wanting to become 18,

being 12 seems so right to me,

I never knew what my life would become

and now that I see my life through a small screen

I wish I never became so frightful

I hope to spend my days freely.

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