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Being a Teen

A Childhood Cancer Survivor Poem
© 2016 Christine Mulvihill

I’m finally 14, finally a teen finally here
You’d think I’d be happy you’d think I’d cheer,
Who knew how hard this could be
Second year at it and I want to flee.
 
I’ve had it to here with all of these responsibilities
There’s never a chance I just get to be me,
Finally a grown up yet it feels so wrong
The madness just started but it’s been so long.
 
I only have 2 hands and one mind
So how can I balance everything in the grind,
How can I stay standing with so much on my shoulders
They call it a small world but I’m holding up boulders,
 
Maybe the world could put itself on pause
While I pick up the pieces and justify this lost cause,
It’s hard to make the grades when I sit there in doubt
I’m sorry sir but my heart just fell out,
Can you give me a moment to put it back in place
And another two just to cry in disgrace.
 
I’m one in million no make that billion who live on this planet
Yet I seem to be the only one who can’t figure it out damn it,
I’m the only one who can’t get it all together
From school to home to dressing for the weather.
 
I remember the days when I was so free
Nothing to think about but my family and me,
What went wrong in my picture perfect life
Oh reality stepped in with its overbearing knife.
 
Now my days are all but happy and family drifts apart
It’s not only boggled my mind but broken my heart,
So I ask of the man oh way up there
Please give me an answer, send me your care,
Just a little piece for a lonely little girl
That little bit a clarity would mean the world.
 

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