Challenge
Challenge of the Week LXXXIX
Secrets. You can write about one of your deep dark secrets, a secret passage, a secret code, a secret desire. Anything secretive or involving secrets is fair game. Poetry or Prose.
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An Untended Fire
My secrets endure like untended burning trash. They gain energy with each mistaken exhale of their existence and feed off my neglect. They grow independently consuming truth and expelling guilt. To extinguish them would be to admit their presence so, instead, I’ll hold my breath and let them burn.