I don't know what it is about this poem but something about it really struck a chord with me.
i suppose the beauty of poetry is the ambiguity of interpretations but i took this poem to be describing the naievity and simplicity that you lose throughout life.
i think your wording was excellent and i loved the descriptions in it. i also loved how the sentences didn't seem fluid, like there was some sort of "staticness" within them. to me this represented the unease of the persona within the poem, especially with word choices such as "awkward."