16 Years

by deceptive-romantic

This is just a poem I wrote about Lena's 16th birthday.

16 Years

16 years.

192 months.

832 weeks.

5,840 days.

140,160 hours.

99,532,800 minutes.

5,971,968,000 seconds.

All leading up to this.

You feel the coming storm.

The power building,

Tension gathering.

It grows,

Slowly at first

Then faster.

Quickening,

Racing,

Until you are sure your world will explode.

And then it breaks, into millions of pieces

And as you are claimed,

Your destiny revealed,

Everything makes sense.

Mystery solved

Wonders revealed.

A light envelops you, blinding you.

You've never felt so alive and yet so gone.

The world seems to spin faster.

The sun seems to shine brighter

Everything is clearer than ever before.

And in two last words,

Whispered of a dying breath

Her path was revealed

"claim yourself"