Finally 18

Happy birthday to me :)

Technically it is legal

Since now I am 18

To go run off and be a w***e

And in the bed be queen

If I so chose to have a smoke

I wouldn't get in trouble

Hookah vape cigarette or cigar

Don't try to burst my bubble

Won't have to listen to my folks 

Don't have to hear them whine

I can make my own rules now

I'll color outside the line

But I'm not like that, that's not who I am

I wouldn't choose to sleep around

I wouldn't choose to smoke

I wouldn't choose to diss my fam

I'm not making a joke

I'll always be that short a*s nerd 

You see with marching band 

I'll always be that strong little girl 

With privates lacking sand

Independent I've always been

I'm 18 now (whoopie)

I can stay out past city curfew

But that will not change me.

Reviews

[TonightWeDine]

Nice rhyming on the second half of the poem. The last stanza kind of tells me that you didn't feel free, which is understandable when it came to turning 18 in the past.

[613]

This was truly amazing! I could relate to this in so many ways. Great job!

XO, Brittney

[Nia Hope]

I'm glad it was relateable. Thanks for the review!

[613]

You're welcome. I look forward to reading more from you!

[Joshua David Dary]

This is just awesome. Really up front, and honest.

Great work. :)

[Nia Hope]

Thanks for the review :)

[Baby Ricochet]

Well happy birthday Ankara. You can join the armed forces just like I did when I turned 18.

[Nia Hope]

It's too late for me, classes start monday and band camp starts tomorow and thanks for the happy birthday and the review

[Lyn Anderson]

This is so strong and defiant, and a little saucy -- judgemental of your peers perhaps, because they have been judgemental of you?

[Nia Hope]

None of my peers have really judged me for it, they all know it's just the way I have been and always will be. I'm not judging them either it was just a little something I came up with while I was just thinking one night. Thank you for reading and reviewing :)

[Camboozie]

Wow, this is such an accurate description of what I thought about turning 18 ( in which I always thought I was alone)! Just have to get past 21 now...

[Nia Hope]

Lol thank you for the review :)