youth?

age: 9
lying in the street
late at night – like, 8:30?
laughing
“are we allowed to do this?”

age: 17
lying in the street
in the dark
gazing at the stars
musing
“what’s out there?”

age: who knows?
where does it end?
youth?
what is life, anyway?
lying in the street
wasting time
throwing away the seconds
like rotten apples -
good for something if you’d only use them -
dawdling
fantasizing...

shock.
I mean, there it is, man.
“is this grown up?”

(c) Emma Gay 2009