I am fifteen and I do not dream of houses and husbands and children
Like the other girls around me
I am sixteen and I don’t care if the boys don’t notice me
I surely do not notice them
I am seventeen and I am so different from everyone in my town
I cannot wait to leave
I am eighteen and I am leaving for college
Finally free from the judgment of my small town
I am nineteen and I drop out
I pack my bags and move to a city
I am twenty and I move back home
head hung low for all to see
I am twenty and I begin to dream of houses and husbands and children
Everyone else seems to be happy with it
I am twenty and I am being consumed by the people around me
I fear I may never get to leave again
I am twenty and I cannot escape my doom
It this all my life is set to be