To my twenties

"To my twenties

Cheat, liar, traitor

you promised sweetness and light

but like 9/11

or October 7th

you terminally recalibrated me,

thrust me down a

gaping black hole

Where did you go when

You abandoned me?

on whom did you spill

all your sunshine?

you demanded a language

I could not hazard,

smothered me

in a sticky grey fog

and catapulted me

directly

into my 40s"