Life Of A Teenager Poem by Janneke Tenvoorde

Many have told me
That your teen years
Are the best part of your life,
Though to me and my peers
It doesn’t seem so.
They are filled with strife.
They are filled with fears.
These growing up years.

I was a child before,
With no worries.
None at all.
But I’m not that young no more.
As in to adolescence I fall,
I realize
That life’s not that easy at all.

I have to make decisions now,
But the hardest part of all
Is trying to fit in.
Knowing how to tie
In bow or pin.
Knowing what to wear
Jeans or a hat.
Knowing what to say
Soft or loud.
As I’m trying to fit in
With the crowd.

Looking in the mirror
I see me,
Trying to be
Not who I am,
But who they are.

As a teen
I have a lot of worries,
That before
I had never seen.
Until it starts.
As I first encounter love,
And discover broken hearts.
As its all I talk of.

Another party,
It’s tomorrow night.
My friends want me to come along,
Though I’m not sure it’s right.
My parents say it’s wrong,
Though I wanna go.
And what do parents know?

It’s stressing me out,
All these decisions.
That’s why I doubt,
That teenage life is as easy
As they say it is.