Summertime Madness

Summer, in all its glory,
Brings to me memories
Of all the years that I spent
Growing up from a baby
To a toddler to a kid
To a teenager to an adult,
And everything that
Changed with the years
That passed by like breeze;
Like in the year 2002,
When the lights would go out
During the summer vacations,
Homework and self study
Would go for a toss
And all the kids would
Gather in the colony
To play hide and seek;
Or like in 2006,
When at 10 PM,
I was playing "Lock and Key"
With a 7 year old girl
And her 4 year old brother,
I fell on the concrete road,
And broke my specs
And also tore away
A large piece of the chin
From my 11 year old face;
And how the years from
2014 to 2016 were spent
Writing supplementary exams
For all the papers in which
I had gloriously failed,
And how in 2019,
I had one of the
Biggest panic attacks
Of my bittersweet life.
I grew from a baby to a toddler
To a kid to a teenager to an adult
And at times it feels
As if the summer has
Always been cruel to me
For some unknown reason,
But it's also the summer
Which paves the way
For a winter that reminds me
That I was born a warrior,
A ruler, a strong human.
- NaPoWriMo, Day 30