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For today’s prompt, write a release poem. Maybe somebody’s being released from prison or a contract. Maybe a person is signing a release form. There’s emotional and physical release. Animals capturing and releasing other animals. Trees releasing leaves in autumn. And so on. ***** Get your poetry published! Learn how to get your poetry...


The gate is open
and you don't run.

The gate is open.
Run!

Run!
but you don't.

Dumb animal.
You stay.

You could go.
You stay.

And would be beaten.
Would be left.

Would be forgotten.
That's what happens where you stay.

But. you are not beaten
You wait.

You wait.
And no one brings you harm.

The gate is open.
There is no one even to forget you.

If the gate closes,
it closes.

You are there
still - still.

Still
still.