Growing Pains Now Older Wiser Smarter Reunion
Funny how now looking back upon
the privilege of youth
How and what we once perceived and
thought our youthful selves to be we
actually weren't in reality
Simply based upon whosoever social circle
of popular group we sought to converts
opinion
Which was actually in effect a noose we placed
around our neck and a feckless exercise
in self sabotage
Because back then I believed I was fat
but cannot find a single picture of myself
resembling that because I actually wasn't
Thought I was ugly only later to be told
I was in fact thought of instead as not
at all bad looking
Didn't think I was in anyway cool but
yet hung out with the cool kid's
Wasn't interested in school so assumed
I was dumb
Was thought of as being funny which
I only just recently found out I supposedly
am
So was perennially shy lacked self-confidence
didn't wish to be noticed or stand out
If only I knew what I know now I probably
wouldn't have wasted what should have
been the best times of my life
Because now that I am older I don't
really care much about anything or
place my worth in what other people
think of me
One thing is for sure though something's
never change
Like the fact I am still the same stupid
idiot I was back then and have always been
Only difference being now is I should be
old enough to know better
Copyright © Christopher Flaherty | Year Posted 2022
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