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Wishing Well
you turn five
you want to be ten
it’s the big girl numbers
it’s when you meet your first taste of freedom
your first independence
it's when you feel
like maybe
just maybe
you’re starting to live life
but then you turn ten
and you wish to be thirteen
because you didn’t get enough of that freedom
and you wanna be a teenager
because that’s the real freedom
that’s when you really taste the first independence
that’s when you have more responsibilities
and you’re trusted with those responsibilities
but then you turn thirteen
and you wish to be sixteen
that’s when you taste real freedom
you crave the freedom that you’re given
because you’re tired of your parents
and your siblings are annoying
so you get to work and earn your own money
you get to drive and hang out with your friends
even though you aren’t really sure who is real or who is fake
but it’s okay
because being lonely is worse than having friends that don’t care
but then you’re sixteen
and you wish to be eighteen
because you’re struggling
and you still don’t know who you’re friends are
and you’re constantly fighting with your mom
and you hate your dad
because nobody in this small town understands you
and you can’t wait to get away
even if it’s just for a little while
and even your mom wants you out
she would never admit it to your face
but she secretly wishes you were more like your “friends”
who are respectful and beautiful
and to be honest
so do you
but then you’re eighteen
and you wish to go back to when it wasn’t so stressful
back to when your biggest worry was if you were sent to time-out
back to when you never had to worry about your mental health
or if you were going to be accepted into your first choice
or at this point even your fourth
because lately, you’re not yourself
and you run away from your problems
because they’re bigger than getting bubblegum stuck in your hair
and you can’t run to Mom because you see her struggling now
so you can’t add your stress to hers
and drive her insane
to isolate herself
because she is the only thing that matters anymore
and she’s your only motivation
and you realize how unhappy you are
now that you’re twenty
and you stopped wishing for the future
because it’s really only caused you pain
but even at twenty
you can’t seem to ask for help
because you don’t want to cause a fight
but you can’t even voice your feelings
even if it didn’t cause a fight
because you don’t understand it
and you can’t expect them to understand it either
because it’s happening inside of you
and you’re just as clueless as they are
so now you’re stuck
wondering what you’re supposed to do
because you feel like you wasted all your pennies in the wishing well
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