GirlSense and NonSense Fall 2015 | Page 31

It remains withheld,

it is locked in a chest, covered with floorboards,

to ensure I never leak back to myself.

Just as the shoreline does not taste every sea on her sands,

for it carries too much depth under its waves

to crash upon the same bank.

If only she knew what she was linked to,

that her tiny coast hugs onto the tip of a kingdom.