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A Little Older, Not Much Wiser

Something within me slowly snapped
Like a wire being bent back and forth
Breaking a little more with every push
Reaching its limit to being worn on

I feel older and more serious now
More so that I was only a year ago
So much shit went down and up
Teaching more life lessons to know

Am I wiser now? I don't feel that way
Just less lighthearted and carefree
Like my happy button is somewhat broken
Somewhere here deep inside of me

It turns itself on and off at will
Pushed by life's joys and woes
As if I'm hanging off a precarious edge
Strangely stuck between high and low

Innocence is forever gone from my grasp
Yet I somehow don't think it was bliss
I was too discontent with child's play
I succumbed quickly to sin's poison kiss

Now I reap the consequence of wandering
From the safety of what little I knew
Learned firsthand what pain really is
The little girl escaped and grew up