Act your age

The notion of age

Trickier than time,
We can never decide
On what is accurate
When it is early,
Or definitely too late.

We tend to feel older,
Older than our actual age.

As teenagers alone,

We could not wait,

Wait for that salient day

To be taken seriously

As mature as we ought to be.

I am not a child anymore, 

An exasperated sigh,

I make my own decisions now

I have learned all the know-how. 

But once we get older

The tables turn

And we are chasing the years

The years we spent acting older.

The wise still comment

Take full responsibility,

Deadpan honest,

You are not that young anymore

You got to think about the future.

And we ponder,

We reflect,

Reviewing the times 

We already felt too old

Though our blood was so young.

Recollecting those times

We were surely too young

To be behaving so old.

And you wonder, 

Puzzle over, 

When is that time
That timing that is right;
Because truthfully,
You are reluctant -
Is there ever a time

A time you managed

To act your own age?