Growing Pains

Growing up isn't easy;
sometimes it's downright painful.

 

Scrapped knees
turn into broken hearts.

 

Fractured bones
don't compare to the hurt
of rejection and unrequited love.

 

A child doesn't understand
that sometimes tears
are not the result of

physical injury.

 

Sometimes they come from
a deeper place.

 

The anguish of a broken heart
can be the most enlivening experience.

 

It makes you remember that
you are still alive.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by: "Photograph" by Ed Sheeran

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