Daily Prompt #3

You know I thought this would be easy

Go through school

Maybe travel and live on my own

Find someone who loves me

Settle down and have a family

But life takes a whole lot more

Than just four steps

I didn't know about step number thirteen

Where you have to learn to be comfortable

In your own skin

And not worry about

Fat or thin

I wasn't aware of step number seven

Where people won't always care

About what you want

And tears won't always stop

Their hurtful taunts

How could I have foreseen

Step number fifteen

Where I have to go through

Unspeakable grief

When my mother

Is taken away from me

There are so many steps

And still more to come

I am tired of trying

To swim upstream

I am tired of trying

To fight a losing battle

But then again

What is life really

Without a little resistance

Mixed in with our bleak existence