Past Lessons

I remember a summer night

The heat was unbearable

We all stood anxiously

Before that empty car

No questions in our heads

Just readiness

Unready to be accepted

Dreams of tomorrow

Undreamt of before

I remember a winter day

The snow drifted madly

I sat beside my mother

As I wondered to myself

What if I were to wander

Into that white horizon

and learn to become

Someone completely

Different

I remember a spring afternoon

The rain was pouring

I stood in a bus

More water then boy

I saw myself

In a glass reflection

I thought to myself

I like this

I like this dishevelled person

This is me

I remember an autumn

Everyone of them comes back

I walk from school to home

And home to school again

I can't help but think

Why?

This isn't life I'm learning

They hide us away

Until they think we can handle

This world that sounds so evil

But I was ready

From the first day

These discoveries that changed

Me and my very life

Were not found in classrooms

Were not taught by teachers

I was always an adult

I have always been old

I was never a child

I learned to be a kid

I learned to live young