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  • Diana Joy
    • Apr 19, 2019
    • 1 min read

Sixteen

Girl woman

with a birthday cake

and no idea

a birthday cake

and a body she doesn’t understand

a birthday cake

and she doesn’t

doesn’t want

to be here


#NaPoWriMo #day16 #poetry

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