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Intentions

KINNERETH DIN
Say words quickly as to
warble low 
and slow.

Carefully unload the stones 
strapped across your back.
And pick the shells from off and out, 
of your bony spine.

We are not able to carry anything
that will cause us to trip
and drop our vows 
and intentions.

Fate permit.

Our hands are slippery 
and mistrustful of us.

Never blame the floor 
for the direction of your own steps.
And please punish instead of releasing 
especially for free.

Such dastardly thoughts and plans 
they lay out for me… 

It is hopeful to 
write down our own recipes?
Which all may follow
but never forgive?

Would you relent to 
us the directions to forget,
when lights dim.

And lights do dim.

But I’m sure you’d be shocked, when you’d find out where

you’d stand when they did.
Kinnereth Din is currently a high school student and aspiring author, poet, and artist from North Texas. She is an executive editor for Cathartic Youth Literary Magazine and the borderline literary magazine. Her work has appeared in Youth Be Heard’s online gallery, Galliard International Review, The Weight Journal and Intersections Magazine. When she isn’t committing her daydreams to paper, you can find her sitting in the sun having a cup of tea.
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