Growing Up

When born

We only know how to do one thing:

Cry

However as we get older

We evolve

At one we know how to: 

Laugh

Walk

At two and three we learn to speak

At four we start school

Where we learn many new things

Reading

Writing

Math

We also learn how to use the bathroom

Or eat with silverware

Without our moms help

Thats the first sign of independence

At ages six through eleven

we learn to observe

To react to our surroundings

Where we branch off

Some down a better road

Some down the worst

As we gear towards middle school

Ages twelve and thirteen

We start to become something

Good and bad

We start to learn the sins

Lust

Greed

Envy

Sloth

Wrath

Gluttony

Pride

We learn hate

How to lie

And how to cause pain

We learn heartache

And We learn loss

We experience mental illness

Without knowing what it means

We learn stress

From watching our parents kill themselves

Just to make sure you wont

We learn new habits

Good

And bad

Drawing

Smoking

Singing

Cutting

Dancing

Stealing

All these things to help escape reality

Then we reach high school

Ages fourteen through seventeen

All Filled with hormone enhanced teens

"love that will last forever"

Grades that control our entire lives

And the making and breaking

Of many newfound relationships

Time speeds up

These four years pass us by

Four homecomings

8 plays

Twenty something credits

Tears

Laughter

Hugs from the ones you love

Weekends full of freedom

Hellos

And goodbyes

All these memories we will never forget

As we walk away from our childhood

The number eighteen is a scary number

One weve prepared for all our lives leading up to that moment

When we reach eighteen we can finally say these three words

"Weve made it"

We made it past the pain and hardships

We survived the aching thoughts

And the painful losses

Weve made it

My god weve made it

So well throw our caps in the air

And welcome the end to an era

And the beginning of the rest of our lives