Secret, pressed between cupped hands, the same hold children use for fireflies, now trying to contain a wild, writhing thing, it always gets out in the end, hot potato, hot potato, who will be last one holding it? Whose hands will be burnt? Whose ears will be poisoned? And who will realize they have no safe place to hold them?
the secret was shared by herself and her closest friend, who had sworn that she wouldn’t tell anyone. But she told her closest friend who told her group of friends. And by the end of the day, everyone in the school knew it.
Secret, pressed between cupped hands, the same hold children use for fireflies, now trying to contain a wild, writhing thing, it always gets out in the end, hot potato, hot potato, who will be last one holding it? Whose hands will be burnt? Whose ears will be poisoned? And who will realize they have no safe place to hold them?
the secret was shared by herself and her closest friend, who had sworn that she wouldn’t tell anyone. But she told her closest friend who told her group of friends. And by the end of the day, everyone in the school knew it.