Sharon Nyambowo Poet Verse

Stuck at 24

My age exists in a vacuum,
A vacuum somewhere deep in my mind,
Where I cannot really access,
Unless I think deeply about it. 
After 24 I think I stopped attaching to it.

I do my best 
I work my hardest 
I budget 
I plan
I can take care of everything me 
I take care of others as much as I can
But I still do it all like play
 
Like it really doesn't mean anything 
Like I am still my parents child whom they are taking care of 
Even though I take care of me

Adulting feels a lot like building castles in the sand
Against very strong currents 
There is the raging sea
The promise of rain and thunder 
And somehow it is already dusk

I try to suspend time at 24
Into this place 
A place where my parents are grown but are still healthy 
A place where my siblings are growing but they are still pure 
And I am still growing
But I am still unadulterated 

24 was that age,
The age that felt safe enough to just be,
Because I was still writing in pencil.

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