Spring of Aging

Chastity Hernandez makes her poetry debut with a personal and intimate collection of poems spanning years throughout her youth. Spring of Aging explores a myriad of raw emotions and thoughts experienced by the author in a relatable and curious way. Spring of Aging brings you along on a heartfelt journey of self-acceptance, heartbreak, grief, mental illness, and new love.Spring of Aging began at the author's age of 14 and has been completed at the age of 22. The collection embraces and comes to terms with different situations in life and hopes to comfort and resonate with readers who are experiencing similar emotions and hardships. We hope at least one of these poems reaches you in a meaningful way and leaves you feeling understood, represented, and at ease. Each poem was put together in a vulnerable and brutally honest state that the author hopes readers can come back to again and again.