Everyday Canvas

Locking Up

Prompt: Write a story or poem that's inspired by absence or emptiness of a person, place or feeling.

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First version, mine.

Locking the Door

there’s a way out
but she chooses to stay in
to empty out
disposing possessions
unwanted, never used
for she knows
nothing is
what she sees

she decides
to lock the door
her steps at first
the hardest
and a journey begins
to end differently
than intended
just maybe
it’s only a click

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New Improved version after Lyn's a Witchy Woman touched it

Locking the Door

She decides
to lock the door
her steps at first
the hardest
as the journey begins
it ended differently

maybe it's only
a click

there's a way
but she chose to stay
emptying, disposing
unwanted possessions
they were nothing
like she thought

maybe it's only
a click