Treasure it while you can.
Love it while it lasts.
Because when you are older
You remember your past.
Do not grow up
Any faster than you must.
Look up to elders
And in their words trust.
If someone looks you
straight in the eye,
And tells you not to hurry things
Think for a second, why would they lie?
Live life to the most
And have a blast being young.
Because when you're older
You will regret, to your childhood you hadn't clung.
One day you will tell
A person the same thing I tell you now.
And you will look back
One moment and realize how
I said what was true
Even though it seemed far fetched.
How I knew what what I had said
And wonder how you made such a mess.
Don't grow up to regret
Like so many do.
Enjoy your innocence
And that will bring you through.
Young people reading this, please keep in mind Nichole was only 23 years old when she died, yet she spoke the words of someone much older. She wished so much that she had done things differently and that she had listened to the people around her.
Please heed her words. You have a lifetime to live, there is no rush to grow up. Nichole went through more in her short years than a lot of people experience in a lifetime. She died with regrets at twenty-three, and that's sad don't you think? Please think about possible repercussions of your actions. I have always told my children the following, and I try to live it. Watch what you say to people, once it comes out you cannot take it back, and words hurt!
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Words a Mother Never Heard (Wattys2016)
PoetryA young woman who was always the life of the party, quick to tell a joke, always smiling and happy, tragically dies at age 23. What her mother found after her death reflected a much different young woman, her poetry. Her words showed a young woman c...
