The Twenty Plenty

By Ahmed Sumaiya S M

The Twenty Plenty captures the life of young adults, encompassing their achievements, anticipations, yearnings and different pathways they navigate during their twenties. 

Here I stand at twenty-one, 

poeting the journey I've just begun. 

Might be one-third or a quarter of the whole, 

but feels like this is all. 

Ain't we weird to see? 

We even feel that way, honestly! 

Just as old as two decades', a tree 

wouldn't feel so exhausted as we. 

Life for us is like, 

growing tall, but learning to keep it short. 

Boasting, gossiping and chasing stars, 

making friends and letting them go, 

falling in love, and failing grades, 

selling ourselves, then shutting the trade. 

Some in a job, some in-between jobs, 

some date, some get married, 

and for some, books still are their fate. 

Romanticizing campus life, we hated school. 

Now visiting our schools one day, 

we click some pics, 

only to post and say 

“Life was good back then!” 

If I live more, I'll write again 

in my forties, sixties, or eighties, 

about the rollercoasters then. 

But chill—for now, you're in your twenties!

By Ahmed Sumaiya S M