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The Experience Of Growing Up
“We would climb the highest dune,
from there to gaze and come down”
We would go down the lowest valleys
and gain perspective of the world
We would play outside for hours
not giving a thought about our worries
Sometimes we might stay inside
and wish we could be somewhere else
We would stay up at night,
watch the sun leave
and the stars come out
Until the sun would come out again
We would play sports,
day in and day out.
We would never worry about
the day it might end
We would wake up
and not have a thought
about the world around us
We would have no worries about the future
Now, as we grow up
we see more and more of how things are
We find love and pain
We gain knowledge of our world
We have found out more about life,
about it’s stress
and it’s sorrows
Sometimes it is hard to keep perspective
of the good with all the darkness out there
But you can’t lose hope that the good is there
It will always be there,
The fact that it is dark proves that.
You just have to keep pushing
until you break through to the light.
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My first thought for this poem was that I wanted to write something on how things used to be, and as time went on and I grew up there was more to the world. In the end, I liked the idea of saying to hold out hope when things are dark, kind of like saying there is a light at the end of the tunnel.