Growing Pains
There's a girl
lost in time,
who forgot how to breathe
how to cry
how to love.
But as she grew,
she learned how to breathe,
how to cry,
and how to love.
She had so much she was holding onto
that it made her hand cramp
and she started to let go
as it all trickled out of her grasp.
She didn't know why
she was holding on so tight.
Maybe it was the hope that these things
could make new things go right
when she started her life
but the pain was much greater
than holding nothing at all
where she could be a blank slate
and unlearn everything she thought she knew
as it only really broke her
and stole her from a life
that in her eyes,
was better.
-S.F.























