teenage girl

one day I will be sitting with someone who loves me

and kids who always get told that they look just like me

I will be telling them all of the stories from when I was young

the good and the bad

and I know I will yearn for days just like these

where the melancholy would wash over me like a storm

but for now I wish for the days where I don't have to worry about being a teenage girl

I won't have to worry about the guy who blocked me one day

or the saved snaps and chats from my ex

I won't have to worry about dating profiles

or ever being ghosted by someone I really liked

I won't have to worry about stalking their reposts

or checking to see if their snap score go up

but for now I am a teenage girl,

I stay up late and laugh until my stomach hurts

and wait for my friends to come home from their dates to debrief every single detail

I have now learned to sit with the melancholy and not let it consume me

and to learn how to enjoy being just a teenage girl