The faults of a past generation

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Time moves fast

Tick… tick… tick…

It all goes

Gone

           Gone

                       Gone

Minutes go by

Hours

            Days

                       Years

Gone.

All lost to the impatience

Of my youth

Of adolescence

Of what I couldn’t find

Of who I couldn’t be

But now it’s far too late.


 

I was told when I was younger

That I would grow up

Get married and have kids

Be successful

And do something

With my life

That my parents never could

But I don’t want that

I don’t want to be held to everything

They could never achieve

Because even without them

I am a person

With my own blood

My own heart

My own passion

My own pride

And my own love

Burning for the right time

The right person

Because if I can’t love the right way

Is it even my love

meandpaul

MN

15 years old

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