Able
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.
Copyright © Varunavi Devaraj | Year Posted 2024
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