Growing Up

Growing Up

by Wesley Hugh Graham

6th Grade

Growing up

Changes you don't realize

Then you're all grown up.

First it starts with your height

You get taller and taller.

Then something happens to your voice

Getting gruffer and gruffer

Or thinner and thinner.

But all the while

You don't realize that

A change is taking place.

But others notice your change.

They notice that

You are changing

From a kid

To a preteen

To a teen

To a young adult

To a middle ager

And at last to an oldie.

Throughout that time

You have your share of trials

And your share of good times.

You have your bad times

And you have good times.

We all do.

Though we're not all the same

We're alike in different ways.

Ways we don't even realize.