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Mike Hauser
Poems
Oct 2014
Growing Up
Let me start off at the start
Where this tale begins
I was turning 5
Wishing I were 10
Always did I feel
Youthful years they held me back
There was so much more that I could do
But so much that I lacked
As sure as I live
Then I turned 10
Hoping soon to be
The tinder age of 13
I knew as a teen that I would be
Footloose and fancy free
13 seemed to hold me back
Had to be 16 is where it's at
16 soon arrived
I took the car to drive
But had nowhere go as an adult
Hoping 21 would make it so
Say hello 21
I took it on the run
Never looking back
Still something that I lacked
The big 3-0
Would be the age I know
The one to satisfy
The apple in my eye
What 30 did
Was came and went
40 hit me up side the head
Like an angry brick
Then I blinked and
50 learned my name
Nothing since that moment
Has ever been the same
Now with 60
Staring me in the face
Can I go back to 5
If there is any way
Written by
Mike Hauser
Sunny Florida
(Sunny Florida)
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