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POEM

Change

By: Pratik Man Singh Suwal

It’s petrifying, the thought of growing old
But I think of it as never being controlled
I think of it as learning to grow

Because there is so many things that I need to know

As a child, I wished I were older
Only because I thought I’d have less on my shoulder
But maybe I wished for it too early
Because soon after that I started to worry

I worry every second about the future that lies ahead
Thinking about it even at night as I lay awake in bed
One wrong step that I might take can disappoint everyone

Which is why I’m scared to even try and get things done

Tears start to stream my face as I begin to overthink
About how I might turn into one failure in a blink
But failure is what makes us grow unassailable
And it is what makes us capable

Growing older is not scary if u think of it
It is serene as long as we do not quit
And so, no matter how many times we fail
We have to get up in life and continue to reign