Growing Up Poem by Ebony Frampton

I'm terrified
Terrified of looking at people around me
Imagining them growing up
With their adult jobs
Their adult lives
I'm terrified
To become an adult
To graduate
To start again
To change.
And time goes on without me
Like rain that hits the ground
I am that drop that is on the window
Refusing to move and inch
Because i'm scared to fall
Into a new beginning
A new change
I'm terrified of the ground being dirty
Or being isolated amongst other drops
I'm scared i'll dissolve
Or the wind will take me
I am terrified
That the person that once was a child
Is now fading away
Because i am on the edge of the window
Holding on from being dropped
Dropped so far
And i know
That i will not be able to come back up
From where i once was
From where my mind still is
Soon i will be graduating
Becoming that adult
Falling towards that ground
Like other raindrops
That come from the sky
At Least i'm not alone
Throughout all this change
And maybe
Just maybe
I'll be one of the few raindrops
To make that rainbow
That lights up in the sky with it's colours
Or make plants bloom
But to get to that spot in one's life
You need to make that leap
And fall off that window
And I think that is one of the hardest things I'll ever have to do.