Dark Secrets
Say, do you harbor a secret true
like everyone else and me too?
All of us have something to hide
Affairs we would rather set aside.
An illicit fling or an erotic scene
Oh, of nature grave and keen,
A wild fantasy or wishful whims,
maybe, one of the 7 deadly sins?
Like the wilted flower in a book
or the rickety skeleton in a nook,
We hide our frailties in the far recess
of our mind for no one to access.
I was married ten years to the day,
She was too and in a family way,
Yet petal by petal I pried open the rose
from where in my neighbor’s yard grows.
We all succumb to carnal sentiments
unmindful of the 10 commandments;
If anyone can prove me otherwise
that truth I speak not but plain lies.
Forever to hold my peace I swear,
Not to write, speak or ever share
my thoughts or opinion in this case
until the last day of my life I face!
~"A Special Secret" contest by Lewis Raynes.
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