hair

It always starts slowly

Growing up that is

One day you're just a regular kid

The next you're just a regular kid

But hairy

Every pore on your body emits

Mass

Quantities

Of hair

Your friends and foes alike

View you as the hairy kid

Yet one thing has changed

And that thing is sadly immeasurable

Your appearance alone has stripped you of your

Childlike glee

Unwavering innocence

And most importantly

The title of child

The adults see your scruff

The girls see your arms

The teachers see your legs

And the world

Well

The world sees a man

Not an awkward lanky hairy Greek

14 year old boy

But a man who is to be treated as such

Goodbye to kind old women pinching your cheek

Goodbye to innocence and the benefit of the doubt

Goodbye to a perception of life unfairly stolen away

One only knows they're growing

When the world has decided they're grown