When You Look At a Teenager What Do You See
When you look at a teenager
What do you see?
Do you see someone who is
Innocent and carefree?
Do you see somebody
With no responsibilities?
Do you wish you could be
Their age again?
We see in youth, there is potential.
The sky's the limit! As it were.
But there also is transition.
Goodbye child, adult near.
A growth in understanding
A development of care.
But emotional challenges arise
It affects their friends.
The youths, they are deep thinkers.
They may question what life's about.
In confusion, in frustration
They may struggle to work it out.
They've neither the experience nor the wisdom
To feel it's okay for help to shout.
Loneliness and despair
Could be their view.
Today many issues face them!
" What's my gender? Who am I?
Global warming is severe!
To help reverse it, I must try!
How can I explain when I too
Don't know why I cry? "
They deserve so much credit
For what they go through!
Though us adults, we think back...
The world's an ever changing place.
And the problems we encountered
Have a calmer looking face.
How can we help today's youths know
That they are by no means out of place?
We need to be there
For them!
Though on the surface teens
Seem happy, seem carefree,
And yes, they have less
Responsibility,
They've still to learn how to
Deal with things holistically.
Do you wish you could
Be their age again?
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