Youth is ephemeral for the individual and immortal for the collective. Everyone must be young. Everyone must discover themselves over and over again. Everyone must listen to lessons of their elders and decide if those lessons resonate with truth or call out to be broken in favor of a new perspective. In our youth we feel invincible, incapable, enamored, empowered, scared and eventually resilient. In a collection of poems that chronicle my faltering steps over time, this book seeks to find patterns in the erratic experience of being young - things that make youth what it is.