"On Turning Ten" by Billy Collins describes the boys turmoil about getting older each year until he turns 10. Billy has a sick feeling coming over him thinking about each year he has grown older, it makes him feel as if he is being disfigured, a chicken pox of the soul. Each year brings him closer to being unable to have the freedom and easiness of being young. He keeps telling himself that all the fun he use to have and all of his imagination that he would take joy in needs to come to an end. Somehow now that he is hitting double digits maturity should come with that. He saw himself as invincible before 10, that "nothing but light" would come out of him if something were to happen to him, now he feels as if life will hurt like skinned knees,
