Growing Up

Let’s workshop this poem about the potential drawbacks of premature development, which might soften the impetus for personal growth or achieving extraordinary feats

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Growing Up

Just as making peace
with the way of the world
too soon might dampen
the naive rage

nudging its change,
going to therapy 
too soon might dampen
the urgency to fill voids 

(or to prove your worth
to a dead dad, or so on)
by scaling peaks
otherwise impossible.

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