Secret Messages

 

 

She emptied her heart.

Wrote all her secrets on little

slips of paper and put them in

old glass bottles she found

buried in her garden.

She carried them, in a cardboard box,

to the sea where she set them free –

a flotilla of her deepest thoughts, her

fears, her longings. All the things she

could no longer hold. She waved goodbye

as they bobbed away with the tide and

made a wish that whoever finds them

will know what to do with them.

 

 

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Writer’s Digest Wednesday Poetry Prompt 674 – write a secret poem