Growing up

"I am a child of twelve with a father and mother,
who love one another;
A young girl of seventeen with wings on her feet,
dreaming that soon a love she will meet;
At twenty-seven I remember the joys, I remember the pain,
and I am loving and living life over again;
I am thirty now I think of the years, all too few, gone too fast,
but accept the fact that nothing can last."