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Here's To the Golden Years

December 6, 2011
By everanon BRONZE, Chicago, Illinois
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"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."

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She is but
Young fifteen
Stuck in the body
Of a girl fourteen
Mindset of one
Nineteen
Wishes she could be
Sixteen
Life experiences
More thirteen
And though she browses
Seventeen
Dreams of golden birthdays,
Freedom
9/18
She’d much rather be adult,
Child,
Senior even
Than undiscovered, lonely
Teen.

© Gabrielle A., Pensacola, FL

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