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Humans never grow out of their teenage phase Unclear what an adult means They are subjected to responsibility Requiring maturity, no human has proven to be Various other targeted teenagers Attempting to guide the novice Helping them tie their shoes To walk on paths, they had once walked bare feet Them, so-called gentlemen, mentor, As the bud blooms into the dark reality An experienced juvenile conversing Stating life journeys, hoping to serve as a guidebook Meaning to say that any lifeblood part of nature Accepts, and adjusts to the new actuality Broken in the flow of his statement Says an older owner of a soul - refuse to accept any problem your way vindicating your true potential and strengths another survivor disagrees debating that refusal and acceptance reduces into jealousy an unresolved human fate, scaring the whole journey agrees she is of the same level into subsistence quoting what once, her teenage guide taught her at ease jealousy turns into revenge absence of validation can cut so deep losing control of your feelings others just call hormonal brain freeze but you are that undefined adult who has now understood you can't survive solo demanding for comfort and trust something the trained call love but that's embarrassing since you agree that you are lonely she is agreed by the oldest living entity hope can crumble you into specs of dust but that’s how you will realize something on your own the bud agrees and says: the only human emotion negatively powerful enough is the feeling of being unable unable to be unable to be confident to walk barefoot on an unknown path unable to adult and humorously realizes, that, able is what an adult is supposed to be.

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Date: 4/13/2024 5:54:00 AM
Thanks for sharing this... exposing your thoughts through your unique poetic style. Welcome to Poetry Soup. I welcome you with the love of the Lord, expressed by John 3:16 of the Bible, "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Be blessed.
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