Second Edit: Growth

[dukealien]

Growth

I miss the nothing days of my youth, nice rhythm on this line
when our worry was a seed. lovely ambiguity - was it a seed of later worry, or was a seed what we worried about?
Our stomachs rubbed together
like two mittens nice simile, also suggests protective covering...
dirty with the year's first snow. for some reason this just keeps getting more suggestive
Our tears rain in June; this line doesn't work for me - if "rain" is a verb it should be past tense, if absent "were" is assumed the rhythm is choppy
puddles that would always dry up. back to suggestive
Your silence wasn't a barren tree, I itch to make this "Your silence was no barren tree" for flow, but that would be too poetistic for the rest of the work
colourful leaves words lost, nice metaphor but difficult to read aloud
broken shade all encompassing.  hyphen or en-dash:  "all-encompassing," otherwise a rough inversion here
I miss the nothing days of our youth.  Subtle - the reader will glance up to the first line and confirm that the growth is from all-about-me to need and affection

In mild to moderate critique, the above should not be taken too much to heart:  it's a good concept with good images, metaphors, similes.  I point out roughnesses in places, but smoothing them out too much would be at the expense of authenticity.

The suggestiveness may be just in my dirty-old-man mind.  Or not   .

Quite enjoyable - thanks for posting this.