All Grown Up
I don’t want to sleep
Because I think I know
(Subconsciously)
That when I wake up
I will be older.
I don’t want to grow up,
I want to go home,
To the brick house,
And the rotting porch,
(We refinished it our last summer there),
Back to when I would climb the cherry tree
In the front yard, scraping my knees,
Not a care in the world other than
What would be for dinner.
I miss the girl I was,
But I think she would be proud of
Who I turned out to be.
-Chloe Hemsoth, sophomore
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