Prompt response
Intentions
Published in
Jun 1, 2022
What did you do?
You intended to come home on time.
You intended to call me and tell me you’d be late.
You intended not to dance with her.
You intended to keep your hands to yourself.
You intended to stay reasonably sober tonight.
You intended not to slap me with your words.
You intended to sleep in bed.
Yet here you are.
Late, drunk, on the couch, smelling like another woman.
Intentions are nothing.
I no longer care.
©2022, Marilyn Wolf
Written in response to this poem by Lucy:
Intentions Aren’t Everything. A poem | by Lucy Dan 蛋小姐 (she/her/她) | Writing101 | May, 2022 | Medium
(Just because I wrote it doesn’t mean it’s autobiographical.)
