Lakewood | Teen Ink

Lakewood

February 21, 2012
By Josh Nieman SILVER, London, Other
Josh Nieman SILVER, London, Other
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That summer
when we were sure my mother was still in love
and we let the sun narrate the stories left in leather skin.
Like the Sunday Bible studies that I'm
no longer allowed to attend
because I brought the devil to a party once.
When bicycles took us anywhere
we needed to be.
We've added a few years
and few pieces of useless rubber to the mix,
and suddenly we mean
so much more.
Suddenly we mean something.

The author's comments:
Lakewood was a christian camp ground that my family used to go to when I was younger. I wrote this looking back on the uneasy transition that we seem to make, not into adulthood, but into what people seem to call "maturity".

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