Secrets

Disclose the secrets that you hide in me Whispered my heart Lost in its own ecstasy At what I was daring to write In its daily diary Disclose them, Shout them out to the world And let clouds gasp, Let birds stop still in their flights, Let trees shed their leaves, Why, Let your poetic self Smile its usual mischievous self At them all! Secrets of love, secrets of feminine freedom, Secrets of rights, secrets of affirming your power, Of asserting your need for respect, Even Secrets of being able to live As you would want to Without fearing the opinions Of those who have not in them The flames of that mysterious candle Which burns in you! The beats of my heart Bid me to blush, crimson red, While listening to all this, For secrets Are meant to be kept hidden As only such can allow their mystery To unfold into yet untold stories!