Retrospective

September 30, 2012 at 10:31 am (literature, Poems, poetry, politics, Stories) (advocacy, experience, flash, life, love, poem, poems, poetry, relationships, slam, soul, word, words, world, writing, young people, youth)

A lamb in a lion suit
simultaneously taller
and smaller than it seems
my youth is corruptible
but infinitely adaptable

To those who believe in
its perfection and worth
my youth will reveal
its true identity.

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