teenage years are tough <br />too many conflicting emotions <br />too many conflicting expectations <br /> <br />bodily initiated transitions <br />child morphs cycles teenage adult <br />powers physical mental cognitive abilities <br /> <br />estrogen testosterone enter play field <br />bat reason rationality straight out for a six <br />mother nature whips hormones through a mix <br /> <br />estrogens primary female sex hormones <br />initiates hard wires female passions desires <br />testosterone jump starts male reproductive tissues <br /> <br /> <br />promotes secondary sexual characteristics <br />increased bone mass muscle growth of body hair <br />estrogens testosterone essential for health well-being <br /> <br />contradictions in behavourial requirements <br />grow up act your age your not a child now <br />no you can't do that go there your not a child <br /> <br />mixed messages merge with hormone havoc <br />increased study pressures examination stress <br />peer pressures required look expectations stress? <br /> <br />Would you mind adulthood more than transitional phases? <br />At this point in life where you're not really a grown up? <br />Neither are you a child exempt from adult responsibilities? <br /> <br /> <br />not experienced enough to work <br />not experienced enough to be your own self <br />but too old to depend on sheltering others? <br /> <br />Where do you go from here? <br />Careful young soul at threshold of adulthood? <br />Walk through that door into kaleidoscopic possibilities? <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/transition-to-adulthood/
