Secrets
She clings her secrets close to her chest,
Clutching like tree roots
Bitter whispers grasp the earth that sustains,
That hiss “mine”
Piercing the life that crumbles to rocks, to pebbles.
Criss-crossing like pine needles
Her fingers leave room not for a single blade
Of grass.
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