This is so beautiful, and insightful...from one so young :)
I can't help commenting. The gift of age, I think is the ability to gracefully let go. To not greedily insist on more, but to understand that you've had your opportunity. I personally don't submit, but peacefully make way for others who are forging their future. There's a refreshing, liberating abatement of ego.

The pictures, and the poem, are perfect.