Sonia Sanchez- Personal Letter No. 3

nothing will keep us young you know not young men or women who spin their youth on cool playing sounds. we are what we are what we never think we are. no more wild geo graphies of the flesh. echoes. that we move in tune to slower smells. it is a hard thing to admit that  sometimes after midnight i am tired of it all.  This poem makes me think of someone who is fed up with their lives. It makes me think of someone who is trying to show the reader the truth behind all the lies we are told, and all the hopes that we as people have. From the start, "nothing will keep you as young as you know" as in, everything you have been told to keep you from aging isnt true because eventually you will age and nothing can stop it. No one ever wants to believe that they will age or that they will get weaker, but its the truth. You will age,  no matter what, yes you can prolong the look on your skin, but the effects will eventually show. I feel like the speaker is fed up with all the people who try so hard to keep from being something that they can not avoid, that they will have to overcome. No one will ever be happy unless they realize that it is a part of life. And the speaker says that sometimes she is tired of it all, I think she wants people to realize what they have and to be happy. And the title also reflects that because its a personal letter, its words that she feels but never says, maybe because shes afraid of hurting someone but she knows that she id fed up with all of it. She just wants to relax and live her life.