Silly Little Secrets

Though I'm older now

I still have a secret

I want to sing,

a little thing

really,

but I don't dare,

because everyone knows

secrets are like dreams and

no one cares about your dreams

(or mine!).

You know and I know

we all have secret songs

we hide from fear

the world will laugh

(which it will, oh yes, it will!),

and so from fear of that

laughter,

we bury them

deep

deep

d

e

e

p

SO

DEEP

in our secret selves,

where they fester

and curdle

and rot

in the darkness,

until they finally pass

(or so I'm told)

and are gone forever,

along with our illusions of youth,

until we're left

cleansed and purged

of silly little secrets

and

the songs

they sing,

or so I'm told.

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Falls Church

March 2022