30

I am clothed fully within my naked flesh
The realization that I have now just fully become ready for adolescence
After three decades has passed and youth long since left
The things I needed to know before I could truly experience the things I have always wanted to
The lessons learned in order to enjoy the tests and trials
Now at the older onset of puberty, my voice only cracks when the truth hits home
A truth so uncomfortable and juvenile in itself that it wreaks of old age
I am getting older, an inevitability
I am no longer within my youth, an outcome unexpected
Yet here I stand at the age of thirty in the prime years of being a teenager
Perhaps by the time I am sixty I may have finally become comfortable in my years







-j.g.smith (06/01/07)