Text Prompt
You find a time capsule buried in the backyard of your new home (or anywhere else, depends on you). What’s in it? How old is it or its probable story is up to the poet.
In the backyard,
behind the apple tree,
I wanted a garden.
I found you instead.
Your story untold.
Your loved ones still looking.
Your heart decomposed.
Let’s go,
into the sunshine,
away from the past.
You captured the beginning of a great story the leaves me wondering … what happens when you take it “away from the past” and into the light of day?s
“Your heart decomposed” says to me the meaning what’s inside is lost.