i survived my teenage years

poem titled: dubious

it’s so wonderful and strange

how you introduce yourself

like I never knew you.

so wonderful,

maybe I'm not me anymore.

so strange,

maybe I don’t know you anymore.

even though I've called you name,

night and night again,

wishing you'd come home.

maybe we've both changed.

title: i survived my teenage years

genre: poetry

target audience: teen, young adult

synopsis: This is a collection of 65 poems, written between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. It deals with the typical parts of life and growing up like first heartbreak, relationships with family members and loss of a dear friend, but it also offers an overthinker’s point of view on love, the meaning of life and destiny. The focus of the last part, and the overarching theme of the collection, is the author’s relationship with themselves, their chronic problems and traumas they’ve experienced while meeting the world in their teenage years.

Over all, i survived my teenage years is about falling apart and deciding to put yourself back together.

about author: I am a young person with no publishing experience, but a lot of enthusiasm about writing and poetry. I like philosphy and psychology, which often leads me to overthinking. I struggle with talking to people but never with putting my feelings on a page. I am in college, I like reading and working with animals.

I can be contacted on Instagram @alexkan_cant