Keep It In

Keep It In

Keep it in your journal:
Memory;
It has the gift of scrutinizing the present.

Keep it there;
Locked away.
So that your fears don't harbor your dreams.

For the dock is a shanty,
Old wood; sodden rot.
A place where the low people come and they stop.

Keep it hidden
In pages,
Even when you think you cannot.

Keep yours treasured
like diamonds-
Most would steal to replace theirs.

-Matthew Koutzun