Bitter Sweet Sixteen~

My thoughts just before my sixteenth birthday...

I stand on the brink

Of age sixteen,

Glance over my shoulder

At the things I've seen.

The memories made,

The friendships lost,

Recollections resurface,

Disheveled and tossed. 

There have been good times,

And times my heart burned,

And times when it bled,

But life-lessons were learned.

God's blessed me with friends,

Given me days to remember.

Things which cannot be swept 

'way by winds of December.

Everything occurs for a reason,

Both the good and bad.

I wouldn't trade one

Experience I've had. 

So many things gone now

People and things I miss.

I will cherish the things

That brought me to this.

Who I am now,

And who I will be,

And who I once was,

Make up the whole me.

They call this age "sweet",

And I know what they mean,

But I think of it more 

As "bitter-sweet" sixteen.

Copyright Hannah Scarlett 2013