Dear Diary, Lock it, Like a Locket

Dear Diary,

Lock it, Like a Locket

Lock and Key

The love is security

No password, No entry

Locked in pages

Ripped in lines

No spaces, complete lines.

Lock it, Like a Locket

Secrets in my mind

I hope no one sees it

I stash it underneath my pillow.

My Dear Diary

Lock it, Like a Locket

I hope no one knows the pages

I write my secrets on.

Lock it, Like a Locket

My tears become my jar of hearts

No remorse on these lines

Just the paper cuts of scars

Where tears left their watermark

Visibility blurred I am no longer conscious

Thoughts have been switched to mind control

I only hope my diary is safe

Because I would hate for those secrets to be exposed.

Lock it, Like a Locket

Time out, whodunit?

Someone stole my diary, who’s the culprit?

Footprints left a trace of roses and petals

Where his ring became my paper cuts of scars

If only his lips didn’t turn those roses into poisonous thorns.

Lock it, Like a Locket

I am can almost taste the glass on his lips

that has now hit me like shards of quicksand

he would rather play a game than to bite his tongue.

Lock it, Like a Locket

Either give me back my diary

Or you’ll have to lose the glass

That unlocks the key

To the biggest secret of all

My heart

Which is why I lock it, like a locket.

Writer’s Workshop Prompts for April 18, 2024