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
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