I like your poem, I can relate. I never wanted to grow up, and I still dont becuase. I like how you compared growing up to an ocean that drags you further away from the beach. Nice work!

Awsome I love it

hey this is an excellent metaphorical thingummy of trying to regain the *innocence of childhood* hehe - its like when you want to be young again - n everyone tells you how wonderful you were when yu were young (lyk you suck now lol)...
ok it doesn't sound like much, but i like this bit - "I see other kids, now adults,
floating and crying. I sense that I am not as alone as I had thought." because you can really imagine it...lyk see the floating kids around yu...
n then "I drift farther and farther out,
clutching only one thing from the beach,
a photograph." this is so real! of your family before you grew up - your idea of them, and yourself at that age. and how photographs are a really strong way to remember yourself at that age, you know?
and (hehe sorry - i may as well say the whole poem is wonderful .) "Undercurrents of experiences
prevent me from beating the waves." - yeah! how its only your experiences that are stopping you from being what you were, and how your perspective on everything (including you now, and you then) has changed...thats the ONLY thing... just realised -.-" trying to get over it lol...
hehe great work!

Dang, faded, you've done it again. Amazing imagrey, and a depth only you can capture. Very good. Your style is one I do admire. I am guessing most of your poems are about hope and fading away to the darkness? Excellent. This is danny_phantom_14_, neofriend meh.

*sob* I love it! It's one of the best I've ever read and you should get it published.

I like it. interesting imagry. And a very good theme to write about. we all must let go sometime.
Oh, and thank you for your help on my work. I'm horrible with apostrophes! And, what sounds fine to me may really weird.

Its really good. I love it. I wish I could write poems like you

i really loved the compasrisons a lot in this. i LOVE the line
"a photograph.
A photograph of my family
from before the storm.
That terrible storm that ripped me away"
very good