Teenage Polytheism

 

Teenage Polytheism
by Raederle Phoenix
2005-2007

Bast has thrown a festival for my piety,

Seth has given me strength for the society,

Venus has brought my love out to pour,

Mars has enlisted me into a holy war!

Whirling, twirling, swirling, 

I’m dizzy and I’m curling,

into a ball, because I’m afraid to fall,

and I’m beginning to crawl,

I can’t walk anymore,

I can’t talk like before,

I’m changing, and I’m blaming

you for me never being the same,

and I’m folding this paper into a crane,

the way you move your neck,

to see what I’m about to peck.

this berry, so sweet and red,

I’m twisting, turning, into a new fight,

burning into a new realm of sight,

learning but it’s blurry and hazy,

Have I always been so lazy?

Have I always been so crazy?

I don’t remember being a member

of this December weather.

I don’t know how I always missed the flow,

and was looked on with woe.

I’m inside out, no longer any time to pout.

This is no time to flout.

But let me tell you what this is about...

I’ve made so many mistakes,

bigger than all of the great lakes,

and I’m telling you for goodness sake,

I have finally come to this great wake.

You know what you have seen,

such a blundering silly teen,

but no more of this sippy-cup,

it’s time for me to finally grow up.

By 
Raederle Phoenix
2005-2007

Note: I wrote this when I was, of course, a teenager. The first draft comes from 2005 when I was 16, and made a major update in 2007 when I was 18. It would feel wrong to change it much now (in 2025) but I have changed the punctuation a little and took out a word I didn't quite understand back then . . .

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