Enterhood  

Definition enterhood: n. the set of living people who have known you all your life, all the way back to your infancy, before you had a clue who you were; a group that slowly shrinks as you get older, until the point when all of your closest confidants have only ever seen an abridged version of you, having joined your story somewhere in the middle of things, just as you did.   From enter + entire + hood. From The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows  

You enter this life with a life full of enterhood  

But most of them don’t know the true authentic you  

Because so often they can’t see past the child you were  

But they have real value in your life  

For when you’ve lost yourself  

There’s no one  

Better to help you find yourself  

They’ve seen every version of you  

And though they sometimes have trouble  

Seeing past the child you once were  

They can help you find you  

That’s why as we grow older when we become lost  

It’s so hard to find our way back to  

The person we want to be who we need to be  

Just as you grow older so do they  

And more and more of them pass away  

And the number of people that see the whole picture of you decreases  

It’s one of the reasons the death of a parent  

Leaves such a gaping cavernous hole in your life 

No one ever loves you in the same way again as your parent did once they’re gone 

You’re stuck with cheap imitations of their enterhood