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Growing Up

June 5, 2024
By ejeske3 BRONZE, Franklin, Wisconsin
ejeske3 BRONZE, Franklin, Wisconsin
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The skin on my bones still the same

The marks on my body still familiar 

Still the same girl with the same name

My life changes as it looks unfamiliar


Years pass by as we all grow up

We start not liking the same things

We start not liking the same people

We start not liking each other


Does time change us?

Do we all stay the same?

Or do we all change?

These questions, we all face


Our lives grow like a flower in the ground

Either sprouting upwards or not growing at all

Some of us sit still as we feel drowned

Waiting until it's our time to rise up or to fall


The author's comments:

I created this slam poem based around growing up and how all of us either feel like we have changed or stayed the exact same. Your relationships change, your interests, etc. 


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