Week 8: Barbed Wire Fences

Be careful
The world is not as besotted with you as I am

The skies may look on you kindly today,
but they would watch you flail if you were struck

Watch your feet and the hem of your dress
Avoid crossing barbed wire fences
Do not engage in any risky plots or wild undertakings

I will be waiting for you one day at sundown
You will find me crouched behind the hedgerow
We’ll whisper our goodbyes, and then
we can dodge the spotlights together.

Author’s Notes:

I like the drama of this one. I didn’t really have a setting in mind for it, but just now when I was reading the line, ‘the skies may look on you kindly today,’ it made me think of a drone. So maybe it’s set in Gaza, or the West Bank, or somewhere else in the middle east. Or maybe it’s set further back, in a concentration camp in Poland. Or maybe it’s set in a YA dystopian novel. Impossible to say.

Favorite Line:
Avoid crossing barbed wire fences

A Line that I Like, but I think is slightly too Long:
Do not engage in any risky plots or wild undertakings