GirlSense and NonSense Fall 2015 | Page 30

My soul feels a thousand years old,

too large to fit in this carapace,

it forms wrinkles on my twenty two year old face.

I wish to see all that I have seen.

But I keep it from these child eyes.

(Still, I dig, lurking in the dusty attics of its cavern

to access the capacity of my knowing).

No.1 by Kaitlinn Rose