Growing Up or Growing In?

The Circle of Life is a bitch and that scares me.
 
Growing Up or Growing In?
By: Akhilesh Agarwal
 
You should have seen the heartaches
That the night left in its wake
Farther from the benches
Where we used to lull off the pain
The bubbles crashed upon us
And left us tear-streaked
We picked the bubblegums out of hearts
Where they stuck like your insults did
 
You inhaled your knees at its bony cleft
And bit away the agony of the heart
I felt the dark inhale me in
You forced it to exhale out
I fell in your sea, like a sunken ship
Never had I felt so found
 
You stood below the kite-dripped sky
The colours dead in your lidded eye
You should have gone when he asked
Now, dear, dear, it’s too late