Today's Post

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I will tell you a secret.

Lined with carefully patterned trees
there is a road
that leads
to the city limits.
It smells of
silence
leaves
and yesterday
and is touched
by a trace of
never-was.

At the end of the road
the edge of the forest begins.
There is a gate
(black with age
slick with mould)
it creaks
but falls quiet
once you are through.
This is a place
I cannot go.
No step has stirred
no sound disturbed
this place
since I fell sleeping.

No brambles here.
Just a path
to follow
a clearing to find
lined with roses
and hiding
a secret.
X marks the spot
where my heart
is buried.

Deep in the quiet ground
it thuds.
Soft in the silent wood
it sleeps.

I do not say to you:
follow the road
and find your way
through the forest.
I do not say:
set out with your spade
and trace the steps
I took.
I do not say:
kiss the princess awake.
Rescue me.
Dig up
my heart.

I only say:
it is there.