Live, Laugh, Love Like a Teenager

Unspoken
Behind those smiles are too many tears
Tears that have been hiding for too many years
Years that have been bad in too many ways
Ways that keep changing for too many days
Days that drag on for far too long
Too long to hold back things too wrong
Wrong feelings, wrong people, far too much
Too much to hold back, too far to touch
Those unreachable things, too many broken
Broken all because of those words, too many
Unspoken

Childhood

We were born and raised in a beautiful place
We learned and grew, at a steady pace
Taught to love as we loved to learn
that we only deserve the things we earn.
As we grew older, we got wiser
things made more sense, no need for an advisor.
Then even later, we could look back
“Those were the days, we used to do track.”
There were things that we did and people we met;
Sometimes we got a little upset.
Childhood memories, oh, they were good,
but redoing anything… I never would.

A Child

A child’s laugh, young and innocent
High, ringing and full of youth
Asking questions about the unknown world
Without getting answers, there lies only a secret
Behind that heart shaped smile

Preteen eyes, saying “catch me if you can”
Running from the past, chasing the future
Ready to take on time and challenge it to run out
Not knowing that life waits for no one
Until it’s over