Tattered notebook,

tell the truth.

 

Are the words you contain 

intended to hurt or maim?

Or do you hold more?...

 

Do you hold some secrets 

of a lover’s poem forgone. 

Words never correct to share.

 

Or are you home to an essay plan?

For an economics exam long complete 

And won.

 

Tattered notebook, 

with your rainbow inks; 

Tattoos of ideas passed.

 

Tattered notebook,

with your pages lost;

leaves forgone in the battle of the draft... 

 

Or notes passed in class.