Sixteen Going On Seventeen

sixteen going on seventeen caught up in her own mind of fears and dreams of love and lust of sex and dreams with no idea of her place or which path caught up in her mediocreness of her mediocre talents of her dreams of boys and men of magazines telling her who to be what to see what to write what to wear caught up in society's games of eating disorders and depression of rebellion of responsibility of anger of angst stuck between not caring enough and caring too little of being herself or being the person she has imagined herself to be her only escape is the poems she writes an the music she listens she tries to talk to her parents to her friends but none take her seriously they see her as the person she has pretended to be she was not mediocre at pretending the person she imagined herself to be was the person she actually became this was a typical poem written by a typical teenage girl sixteen going on seventeen