My Awkward Phase
Feb 17 2023
I'm still in my awkward phase.
You'd have thought I'd grown out of it, by now;
but here I am an adult
and I still feel an imposter,
not grown-up at all.
I'm surprised
they haven't seen through my facade.
An adolescent
fearfully peering out
from a grown man's body,
the child
inside us all.
Somehow, everyone else figured it out.
Grew into themselves.
Became their parents,
even if it was
the last thing they intended.
Others regressed
as age caught up with them.
And some, like me, are arrested;
the missed steps
and squandered opportunities
forever lost.
Is there something to be said
for this in-between state,
some good that can come?
Or is it too late?
I always imagined
the fullness of time would settle me;
but I'm still too far behind,
and now, whatever time is left
is so much less
than what's been lost.
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