At age three reality hit me

I couldn't live like a child anymore

I had to grow up

I spent most of my childhood

Reading books and watching the other kids play

I wasn't a fan of tag

Or swinging on the swings

I'd rather sit and think

Or read a book to escape

My family called me mature

My friends called me boring

But now as a teenage girl

I feel as if I messed everything up

I was so caught up in my mind

That I forgot to live and laugh

And now I am stucl here standing

Wondering what it is like to be alive

To laugh and play without cares or worries

I was too young to grow up when I did

So thank you to the people in my life

That made a three year old

act thirty.