Mom, I feel so tiny
When I look at the endless sky
Will I ever grow up?
Watch intimately the birds fly?
Mom, I feel so tiny
Helpless and insignificant
Is there no magic potion
To speed up the adolescents?
Mom, I feel so tiny
A misfit on this giant Earth
Looking at the stars above
Contemplating my righteous worth
Mom, I feel so tiny
Respond to my questions and qualms
Do all the children have to
Follow the lines on their little palms?
“Do not worry,” Mommy said
Her eyes filled with a lot of pain
“Once you happen to grow up
You’d wish to be a child again”
Frank Solanki 