Growing Pains

Learning and growing, how to keep hold
Not showing off, how much I’ve grown
Keeping pistols in the holster, no room for bolster
Knowing when to draw, when to flow over
Harder and harder, targets everywhere I go
Staying away, from others to know
Speaking just a bit, soon enough will slip
Deeper perspectives, reaching through to grip
Over before you know it, a crying shame
Seeking a struggle, breaking a chain
Swim through a flood, sparking a flame
Everywhere I go, a growing pain
Onto anything it seems, after a while
No longer caring, for others denials
All jokes of course, of what too confused
Still learning how, comedy from blues
Hopefully soon, not much longer
Balance will be sought, like cupids arrows
Minds being sparked, not left in the dark
Accepting and trusting, no friends to be bought
Over before you know it, a crying shame
Seeking a struggle, breaking a chain
Swim through a flood, sparking a flame
Everywhere I go, a growing pain
Is it a dream, building and creating enough for thee
Leaving the rest, for others to plant and seed
A new life is given, to replicate creation
Accepting the path, for deeper revelations
The earth greening over, more blue for sky and water
With animals are shared, the feelings left over
Using your brain, for internal gain
Reality enlightened, from external pain
Over before you know it, a crying shame
Seeking a struggle, breaking a chain
Swim through a flood, sparking a flame
Everywhere I go, a growing pain
This is our world, why can’t others see
Choosing instead distractions and misery
Every opportunity, to deepen the debt
A turn of the head, creation is wept
My bet is different, learning how to overcome
Challenges met, from others undone
Going much farther, why not if on the peak
A species of knowledge, and takers that keep
Over before you know it, a crying shame
Seeking a struggle, breaking a chain
Swim through a flood, sparking a flame
Everywhere I go, a growing pain
Is it worth it, will anything ever change
Or only I, a nightmare to live in chains
Finding a purpose, has to be inspired
From somewhere inside, else always tired
Never lasting long, repetition taking wrong
Learning to discard, where you don’t belong
What if we could all, be strangers for a day
How would we act, types of games to play
Over before you know it, a crying shame
Seeking a struggle, breaking a chain
Swim through a flood, sparking a flame
Everywhere I go, a growing pain