sweet time
June Henry
Reading a book a week
Climbing trees
Like I did as a kid
I feel more like myself
Than I've ever in my life
The days go by pretty quick
Guess at my age, that's to be expected
But it's terrifying
I wanna take like 20 gap years
I wanna take my sweet time
I'm a kid out at recess
I don't wanna go back in
But I hear the whistle
Pretty soon, someone's gonna start yelling
I wanna sleep under the stars
I wanna master the monkey bars
I wanna weave every clover flowеr into a blanket
I wanna figure evеrything out
But I don't wanna lose myself
After it took me so damn long
To find them