Teenager

Talk to me
Of dramas or doldrums
Riddled with fears
Neurosis
Neurotic
Fledgling
Soon to fly
Or try and flail.

Teen between
on the brink
All or nothing
Sink or swim mentality.
Braver than sanity
Unsure at every shadow
Certain of all
Knowing nothing.

Ready or not
Jumping into fires
And out of rescues
Graying watchers heads
No p-r-o-b-lem--Right
I'll try to remember that
When you do not
Or cannot.

Comes there a day
A respite of release
A glimmer
A glimpse
Of the next phase
The phrase will change
And even this
Shall pass