Young and Full of Fire

Young and full of fire,

I wrote my dreams and fears;

Penned vengeance and forgiveness.

I knew with foolish certainty

The future would be brighter.

I thought nothing could be worse

Than the hell I was living through.

So many clichés

Are flying through my mind

Showing just how ignorant

A teenage girl can be.

Pains of the heart

Are no less painful

Than pains of the body

And the pains of responsibility.

But as I look back

With time shaded eyes

I see the simple life

I could have lived

If I’d stopped wishing.

Note: My life is still hard but in a different way. I am definitely much happier than I was as a teenager, but that's what perspective and experience can do. It has allowed me to search out and appreciate the good in my life despite the bad.