POEM STARTER
Craft an ode to the trials of growing up.
An Ode is a lyrical poem celebrating or glorifying an aspect of life.
Growing Up
Shorter skirts
More makeup
Play dates turn to hangouts
Hangouts turn to dates
Individualism was so last year
Step in line to look like the rest
Time to put your camouflage to the test
If you step an inch out of line
Comments thrown around all the time
Better be witty and fight off the gaze
Turn down the style
Wear what’s all the rage
Even if you look like the girls your mum told to stay away from on the bus
If I saw them now they’d call me one of us
Lies spill out of my mouth I can’t tell what I want or if I saw it south of a post from a comment "you’d look better in blue that red on you! I haven’t a clue what was going through your head" keep up with the trends
You walk home alone cause you friends went without you
You chose those friends cause you thought they’d surround you