maturity
celebrating a teenager's skill
choked unconscious
© Rachel Green August 2025
Some lessons learned before the fateful day
when future dreams become the summers past
and life seems less opportune for making hay
and more like hoarding memories to last.
Noticing one's arm did lose its strength
a week or two ago, but knowing not the cause
until a man not half my age extends its length
and gives my grappling skills a pause;
Or throwing a competitor, a teen,
with a baiana, leading with my neck exposed
which allows him to apply a guillotine
and thus I am from grappling throne deposed.
Or worst of all, consumption of a birthday sponge
which leads me in a night of porcelain plunge.
© Rachel Green August 2025
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