Green Peas at Stake

1001 Stories

She writes inside the lines
and in between
scattering rumored secrets
like broken glass,
sharp-edged, cocky,
cutting through her breath.

She gasps,
struggling between the revered truth
of wanton fiction,
and frankly, the stories
she’ll never tell
out of mercy, or pride,
or love,
stories deep, dark, cold,
stories abandoned
curling dry on emptiness.

She says her prayers
every night,
to keep her alive
so she isn’t left
empty-handed,
and with her words growing skin,
she hides inside each prayer,
every night telling a story
of errors
to herself.

Poets' Practice Pad  [18+] #1013410 Write poetry from prompts just for the fun of it; formal or free verse, you pick. by Joy