Old

I feel so much older

I’m the oldest in my grade

I could’ve been going into high school

My birthday was right on the edge

My friends are all one to two years younger than me

And it’s a gap I can feel

I can feel the developmental difference

And how I’m gravitating toward my high school friends

Because they’re more mature

They’re more where I am

In life

I feel so much older

Something they won’t get until they’re there

I feel like I should be in high school by now

But I’m stuck here for another torturous year

I feel so much older

And it matters

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QueenBee

VT

14 years old

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  • Poetry

    By QueenBee

    Sleigh ride

    Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring tingle tingling too

    F F F F F G F-D Bb C D C-A G F-

    imitating the human voice with instruments

    percussion back there repeatedly hitting the sleigh bells

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  • Poetry

    By QueenBee

    Family

    I showed my grandmother my keyboard

    she took six years' of lessons when she was younger.

    Her fingers found the keys -

    she could still read -

    just enough

    just a little.

    I pulled out my flute-piano duet book

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  • Poetry

    By QueenBee

    First kiss

    You cared;

    I tried to.

    You did;

    I thought I did.

    I wanted so badly

    to be a character in my books

    and to feel longing

    to feel needing

    to feel love and to

    be loved

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