Growing Up Is Hard To Do

Moving is one of the most stressful things,
Someone said.

I’d heard this before, read it in a magazine.
Do other people still read magazines?

Someone said they’d had a crazy week.
I said I’ve had a crazy life.

Do I repeat myself now often?
They’d heard that before, from me.

Time to take to the streets,
Check out that long dormant endurance .

I pedal my bicycle like a twelve year old
On a scavenger hunt with the neighbor’s kids.

My legs begin to cramp from the effort.
I don’t have a ten speed, like the others.

I know that I am losing but I pedal harder
Because I also know that I can win.

If I try hard enough,
If I apply myself.

Someone told me once that I didn’t do that.
I said to him,

You try to apply me and see if I stick.