A Poem or a Crossword?

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Across
  1. 4. Innocent and trustful
  2. 6. Stories, fables
  3. 8. Intense sorrow
  4. 9. "___ is me!"
  5. 10. One's individuality
  6. 13. Linguistic units
  7. 14. White noise, perhaps
  8. 15. Apprehensive state
  9. 17. Lack of success
  10. 21. Game for one
  11. 24. Central Asian Country
  12. 25. Intellect; care
Down
  1. 1. Composition in verse
  2. 2. One might be hatched
  3. 3. Extreme anxiety or pain
  4. 5. Be optimistic
  5. 7. Abandon hope
  6. 8. Become an adult
  7. 9. Producer of wrinkles, it's said
  8. 11. Yet to come
  9. 12. Emotion causing quaking
  10. 16. What makes you you
  11. 18. "Where the heart is"
  12. 19. Recognized, familiar
  13. 20. ___ soul
  14. 22. Leave speechless
  15. 23. "There was the time I ..."