Never letting go

I watch as the world I've known fades away.

Friends walk their paths, to be seen again on a much later date,
the pattern I followed being completely destroyed,
and the challenges I now face scare me.

I have no security, no knowing of what comes next.

The adult world beckons, and grins it's scary smile,
the ideas that I've held get ready to be blown away,
and the free time I had shrinks, pushing me closer to dangerous things.

But still, I can laugh.

They can make me dress up in a suit,
they can expect seriousness,
they can try to make me walk the bland line of adulthood...

But I am SO going to make faces at them when they don't look.