On Wednesday I am going to be 15 years old

On Wednesday I am going to be 15 years old

In all these years I have found…

It is not easy to listen to my heart…
Sometimes it speaks of sadness…
Sometimes it speaks of joy…
Sometimes it tells me to cross an endless ocean…
Sometimes it tells me, I am already there.

It says to me, “If you can conceive it, you can do it!”
Or, “It is time to prove everyone wrong…”
Often, it scrunches its face in confusion…
Wondering, “Why am I going so fast.”

It repeats my life with every heartbeat…
Harmonizes with the din of the rain…
Shifts the pieces of my puzzle together…
And when I don’t listen it shows its teeth like a wolf.

It speaks only in brief and simple words…
Of courage…
Of fear…
Always calling for action.

Today it is telling me, “Be happy!”
It is time to race through the waves…
That today is a beginning of a new dawn…
“So, listen, listen, listen.”

I love you,

Annie