The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Twenty

from Measure For Measure by Owen Franklin

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Miranda sits alone, she’s done the same for several evenings now
Staring out her bedroom window at the island that a streetlight forms
Amidst the murky rivers of the gloomy path below
Seven billion people in the world and still she’s feeling like
The only one whose voice remains unheard
She blames the pain in her no-longer teenage brain
But all the same she can’t complain, it feels ungrateful to complain
And so it goes
It’s far from perfect
But still she knows
That when the dark and bitter night gives way to tender morning light
She’ll smile
Miranda looks into the future for a change for a while
And suddenly she starts to see the scope of opportunity
And soon she realises growing up is not so strange
Twenty years’ experience in the world, and yet she’s still so young
All her happy memories, and yet so many more to come
She’s spent the past few evenings being retrospective
And nostalgia for the past, well it’s messed with her perspective
But she knows that there are things she’s yet to be
And places that she’s yet to see
And people that she’s yet to meet
All waiting for their day to come
Miranda’s not the only one
Her pessimism is overblown, she smiles and knows that she is not alone

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from Measure For Measure, released January 25, 2013

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