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[callingyourname]

When you are young

no one tells you that when you grow up

it will be harder to believe

in God,

that you will have to stop eating

so much junk food,

that the boy you love as a young girl

will become a man

you do not know,

and that you will become

a woman that

your teenage self

wouldn't recognize.

One day

that girl you call your best friend

will call you for the

Comments

[radioactiveart]

I like this. I'm glad you are still here.

[callingyourname]

Thank you, Tony. I honestly don't think it's a great poem, but it's one of the only ones I have written in the last few years. I've been more into fiction-writing, but I thought it would be good to stretch a bit once more.

[radioactiveart]

It's pretty good, actually. Don't sell it short.