as a person,

it is of the utmost

and of the highest honor

to possess the ability

to transform

to shape

to evolve

to change

into a person of your very own,

with different memories than the person who birthed you

with greater strengths than the stranger next to you

with frailer weaknesses than the set of arms in which you call home.

it is not a right

but a blessing from every heaven

to be able to become

to build & mold a person out of stars and dust alone

presented to you by the birth of the universe.

it is the gift of life

therefore it is beauty,

a precious grace

one that is known as

growth.