Childish

People always say to children
Do not act so childish.
But how is a child to act,
If not childish?
Do they wish for children
To waste their lives
Waiting to grow up
But acting as if they already were?
Children should be children.
Free to be free
While they still can be.
I will act childish,
Because that is what I am,
A child.

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