A Sunset Through Tears

I want to be free
To be who I want to,
And to do what I want,
With no one in my way.
I must be free
To go where I want,
Without questions asked.
I cannot get that here.
Soon I must go,
And find who I really am …

The sunset of childhood can be a wonderful, exciting time. For others, it can be a painful, heartbreaking chapter in life. Either way, the teenage years should not be a time when young people feel alone in their feelings.

In a moving poetry collection originally penned decades ago when she w...