on september 20th,

i cried on the metro

for all the hardship,

for all the heartache

for all the headaches

the twentieth year brought me.

on september 21st,

i posted a poem about it on IG

for all my people in the front row to see.

on september 27th,

i turned twenty-one

in the arms and hearts of well over twenty-one loved ones.

this chapter was brought in with laughter,

with smiles, with company kept

even in the hours after.

this time i didn’t turn an age

i turned a page.

with all the knowledge and hope

that this story gets better.

i hope when u make it to your 21st chapter

that u feel the same.

-jaziyyah