Fifteen
You should be
Concerned with pimples
Braces maybe
Who to take to homecoming
What new shoes to get for school
This year
And not,
Not ever
At fifteen
Should you have to learn
That you should not take life
For granted
Because at any second
It can be taken away
And that friends can be
There one moment
Gone the next
Fifteen
Should not be
The last age you see
Fifteen
Should not be
The age you’ll forever
Be dreamed of as
Fifteen
Too young to know love but
Too childish not to be in it
Fifteen
Too young to have to cry
Over one too young to die
Too young to have to fly
On your own
Fifteen