How I feel

"It seems only yesterday I used to believe

there was nothing under my skin but light.

If you cut me I could shine.

But now, when I fall upon the sidewalks of life,

I skin my knees. I bleed."



(On turning 10, by Billy Collins)


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This is how I felt last week. Like I could shine,  like nothing could hurt me.

And then:    BAM!

 I trip.

I fall.

I bleed.




I have reached that piont of growing up that everyone talks about, but you never believed.
I hurts. And you just have to keep moving on.

Are you happy now? I bleed.