Life Lesson.

by Megann Lee   Oct 2, 2007


I used to think life was just a stupid game.
It never made sense to me, I never understood.
Thinking that it was this huge playground of fun.
Little did I know growing up never hurt so much.

With each passing year and another digit older.
Things that meant nothing suddenly meant everything.
Words and thoughts had changed, attitudes went away.
Life was no longer fun and games, but scary and real.

I could never be as perfect as I thought perfect was.
No matter how hard I tried or what I tried to do.
I never was what life showed in the movies or books.
I wasn't as pretty, skinny, or intelligent as they.

I was nothing more than a naive teenager finding out
That life was never going to be as simple as it seems
That everything changes when you have grown older.
I know now life is full of mistakes and consequences.

© Megan Wheeler 2007

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  • 16 years ago

    by Lonely Rider

    Well written...
    well we never get whatever we want...I could relate it to my teenage yrs when I used to compare myself with others and used to get upset to realize that Im not perfect...
    but those days are over :) and Im quite happy with myself..
    your poem described all those tumoils... the complex feeling... very well done...

    keep writing..

  • 17 years ago

    by Rheingold

    Ah, how I long for the real me could stay in the first part of your poem.

    We grow up, realize life isn't what we think it is whilst youunger.

    Oh how the young have no idea how much they have to live fo :(..

    I like this, very realistic.

  • 17 years ago

    by Tammie

    I think a lot of people can relate to this, which is good, and the concept is broad. I like the way you write, and I'm not a person that only likes rhymed poetry, but I think that this would have flowed better if it did rhyme. My favorite line would have to be this one:
    I co"ld never be as perfect as I thought perfect was."
    Something about it just really stands out to me.
    Well done on this.

    Tammie

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