
5 Years From Now
This is what I imagine my life to be like in 5 years. The future makes me nervous because anything can happen but I remain optimistic always.
Lola Hart is a Psychology major with a Writing minor at SUNY Buffalo. She has been published in two Girls Write Now anthologies. An excerpt from her piece “The Inheritance” can be found in Ctrl+B: The Girls Write Now 2019 Anthology. The second, “5 Years From Now,” appears in Taking Our Place in History: The Girls Write Now 2020 Anthology. She performed her iconic poem “The Bad Old Days” at the 2019 Agents of Change Awards and at a Girls Write Now Chapters Reading in June 2019. Lola Hart is Nigerian and resides in Queens, NY.
Jhene Aiko, Summer Walker, and Mariah the Scientist
Poetry, Spoken Word Poetry and Young Adult (YA) Fiction
I wrote these pieces based on what was going on in my life at the moment. I hope readers can connect to my pieces and realize that they are not alone.
This is what I imagine my life to be like in 5 years. The future makes me nervous because anything can happen but I remain optimistic always.
At the start of making this piece, I had just finally found myself again.