It closely follows Erik Erikson’s psychosocial theory, claiming that humans develop in stages beginning at infancy and continuing into late adulthood. The eight stages hope, will, purpose, competence, fidelity, love, care, and wisdom all play a role in this poem. With each stage the individual is supposed to master each new challenge. Failure to do so could ultimately result in a psychosocial crisis. The first four lines exemplify the speaker’s hope stage. He/she begins to write with a prospective approach. The writer states a simple “Aloha” in line one, and a reassuring “Don’t Panic”, in line four. As the poem progresses, in between lines nine and seventeen, the speaker mentions trying to stay alive and how they were using writing as their motivational drive. This could be viewed as the speaker’s will and purpose. The speaker has seemingly mastered hope, will, and purpose at this point. Line eighteen best portrays the competence and fidelity stage. In this line the speaker begins to question their identity and also his/her ability to pull through. Now the speaker is beginning to have doubts and it is turning into what is known as a psychosocial crisis. The last three stages of emotional growth are love, care, and wisdom and these three are also known to be developed during the adulthood stage. These can be found in the last seven lines. The speaker begins