Aging

Here she lies

a girl of twenty years

old with wishes and worries

that weigh upon her skeleton

hunched and crumpled down

like a regretful, bumbling humpback

knowing what she has done

and where in the world she has been

she finds this current place dull

her skinny, fine fingers beg to write

a passionate word to be published

and her dreams even smell like fresh laundry

sitting in heat, wanting to be folded

and put away

in the place

where they belong