Friday, May 13, 2011

Emerging Adolescence

I thought I posted this yesterday 5/12/11, but due to
blog problems I'm posting it again today.

















Slight movement in the casing
then the breakthrough
a young chick emerges from it's shell,
the butterfly releases from a chrysalis,
and our offspring discard
the innocence of childhood.

Subtle changes
first awkward then expressed
as they come onto their own
striving to become fully
developed grown-ups.

Oh lord, our teens
will never return
to that simpler time
when they were children
and their world was
under our control.

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