For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Keep This (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “Keep This a Secret,” “Keep This Letter,” “Keep This Moment,” or “Keep This Poem.”

Keep This Breath

In between the roads and scents and all that will be
and this, this moment of waiting,
this time already gone
already forgotten

like so many days
so many years even

Keep just this

for as long as you can
this breath

the only thing
with you 
always