Swear You Won't Tell! Mar. 13, 2025

Gary Hunter
Mar 12
1 min read

Not your partner or family or closest friend

we add those words to secrets

don’t we, for an extra airtight seal

for a looming surprise to be revealed

in a proclamation, followed by

claps, slaps and smiley hugs

but it’s the much darker confidence

laid in the graveyard of two minds

buried deep without headstone

that we fear one day

will crawl out of the muck and

through the lips of one of them

in an unguarded moment

the secret will seek liberation

like all thoughts

and a skeleton will leap

into the land of the living

Recent Posts

See All

Of Late Afternoons - Dec. 4, 2025

shade spills its ink over the backyard goldfish churn the surface of the pond lipping water for a 5 pm feeding yet to begin birds bank in on a breeze for a last drink blue dragonflies linger on darken

Judgements - Dec. 3, 2025

sometimes, I’m the cloud looking around the sky, assessing my own kind he’s too fat she’s too thin they’re too bossy, that one’s overly shy those are too white, and those not white enough I dispar

Light's Descent - Nov. 30, 2025

if I could capsulize my life now, it would be late afternoons, a recurring event of time spent staring out the picture window into a quieting backyard, shade chasing the sun’s paintbrush across the wa

Comments