We Call Those Secrets - June 25, 2024

Gary Hunter
Jun 25, 2024
1 min read

every hair on a head has a life

wants to lengthen and flourish

but we chop them back

shape them like a bonsai

then snip again and again

makes me wonder what else

we don’t want to emerge

from inside us something

doubt or fear keeps cutting

each time it raises a head

something we don’t want

to reach the light of day

guess we call those secrets

though I know they grow

quite differently in darkness

much uglier and more twisted

than the hairs on a head

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