The sleek bamboo shies away, <br />The stems of banana weep and cry, <br />Petals of chosen flowers hide and see, <br />How elegant you are at your teens, human. <br />The sun flowers just follow in obedience, <br />Where ever you go and disobedience, <br />To the sun is visually noted, <br />Angry sun looking for another flower, <br />To replace this infidel yellow flower. <br />When you walk in the garden, <br />The freshly bloomed flowers, <br />Close their petals, <br />For the fear of being ridiculed, <br />Just in the presence of, <br />your natural fragrance. <br />After Looking at your teeth, <br />Pearls of the ocean, <br />May go for a Whitening treat and <br />they may want to scale off the dirt that formed them. <br />When the wind meet the lady human at her teens, <br />It tries to blow as soft as the lady walks <br />When the moon meets the gentleman human at his teens, <br />She may show him the whitest face, <br />On full moon day to be his bride, <br />On new moon day. <br />If the sun passes by the lady human at her teens, <br />he will prostrate in front of her, <br />to choose him as a flower, <br />to wear on her plaited hair.<br /><br />veeraiyah subbulakshmi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/teen-aged-human/