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[youraverageteenpoet]

Maturing out of Ignorance

I have grown up around shape shifters

When the older kids realized their disguise

They ran for the hills

I myself could not understand

Why they would leave

Probably wondered if they hated me

Until

I grew to discover

Their true colors

Their loud booming voices

Or their

Less than peaceful choices

I matured to reveal

The unpleasant truths they tried to conceal

Through childhood innocence

They tried to be ambiguous

But I am no longer clueless

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