'The Wish I Regret'

 At Sunday's Voices of Poetry, Nia Jessup from Third Form read out her interesting poem 'The Wish I Regret:

 

The wish I regret …

A teenager 

Not an adult but not a kid either 

That's what we are

The between

We have to act like adults

But also have fun 

And enjoy our younger years 

While we're still young.

5 years. 

That's all it is,

It sounds so short.

Yet it feels so long. 

The wish to grow older 

The wish to be free 

From all the things that our parents see. 

I regret the wish.

We sit in neat rows,

But our minds are a maze,

Wandering far,

Through uncertain days.

We carry our futures

In our minds each day,

While pieces of childhood

Are slipping away.

The wish to grow older—

It burned like a flame,

But age came with shadows

And burdens with names.

I wanted to rush,
Through the long restless days.
Not knowing I'd look back
And long for those ways.

I regret that wish …