Make Your Childhood Last Poem by Hailey Agnew

I remember the day,
Someone said to me,
“Don’t grow up too fast, honey,
One day you’ll look back and this will have all gone too fast,
What I wouldn’t do to have my childhood back”
I didn’t understand the words said to me,
I didn’t want to hear that or believe.
I just ignored it and went on wanting,
Wanting to grow up, wanting to be 16.
I couldn’t wait till I was old enough,
Too be on my own and do things for myself.
But even when I still can’t do that, I wish I still had help.
My childhood is gone,
My teenage years ahead of me.
Trading in scraped knees,
For broken hearts and low cut tees.
My parents never there for me,
Always telling me I’m wrong.
Never understanding, never letting me explain,
We never get along.
I wish they would let me make mistakes for myself,
And learn as I go along.
There are better ways to teach me right and wrong.
I just got through my first love,
It ended in a painful heartbreak.
I never thought I could hurt like that,
Sometimes minutes felt like days.
I did it all alone,
I got through it on my own.
My parents were not there for me,
They couldn’t understand,
And now they’re not there for me,
Even when I want a loving hand.
My mom lives half an hour away,
Never having the gas to come save the day.
My dad has a girlfriend and that woman hates me,
He’s chosen her over me and I’m alone so completely.
Now that I have nowhere to go,
Nobody to turn to,
It really makes me miss the days I had the choice,
To have support and speak my voice.
Now I wish,
I had listened that day,
When I heard that woman say,
“Don’t let these moments slip away”.
What seemed to take so long,
Has now gone by so fast,
Now that I know what I was waiting for,
I wish I had made those days last.
I’d give anything to be a little kid again,
To only have to worry about scraped knees and broken skin.
It seems it went by in minutes,
Now I wish I could do the same for the years ahead of me,
I wish I could fast-forward through all the years,
Of my dreaded teens.
Or at least go back in time,
Because if I could I’d make it all last,
Knowing what lay ahead,
I would make my childhood a blast.