Adolescence and I Am In Transitional Stage Why Is the World and America Mistreating Me So

a person aged from 13 to 19 years. I am, no longer twelve adolescence I am youth Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage I am a young person Why? Is everyone always telling me what to do I'm a minor Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage Nothing more finer I'm thirteen This world so mean I have a mind Stop hovering over me all the time I'm fourteen I'm being held in a dream Why does the world and America mistreat me I have a voice, I have a choice No really Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage My psychological development Left on the table Generally occurs during the period From puberty to legal adulthood At fifteen I'm being held in a dream Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years Stop hovering over me all the time I'm sixteen Not a baby Now at seventeen Four years from being a man a woman A junior in high school Why does the world and America mistreat me No really Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage My psychological development Left on the table Generally occurs during the period From puberty to legal adulthood At eighteen I have the same body parts and mind set as adults And yet in me you do not trust I'm being held in a dream Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years Stop hovering over me all the time All these rules do as I say not as I do How can I as a child do right when you as an adult do wrong I am, no longer twelve adolescence I am youth Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage I am a young person Why? Is everyone always telling me what to do I'm nineteen Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage Nothing more finer This world so mean I have a mind Stop hovering over me all the time I'm nineteen I'm being held in a dream Why does the world and America mistreat me Its physical, psychological Also cultural expressions May begin earlier and end later Now I say I'm an adult Not adolescent, youth, Young person, minor, nor juvenile Informal teen, teenybopper I am not umri wa kijana Teenager And in all of my stance and misguided complaints Grandma says boy(girl) ya can be 38 Your still not grown yet... 10/14/18 Written by James Edward Lee Sr. © 2018 Entry and from anthology "10th Annual INTER GENERATIONAL POETRY CONTEST” UNO UNIVERSITY OF OMAHA /DEPARTMENT OF GERONTOLOGY “I AM A TEEN AND THIS IS HOW DOES AMERICA TREATS ME”