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Unexposed Secrets

"The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed. The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charm were broken if revealed."            Charlotte Bronte


Sometimes I've been forced to wear a mask to escape from people who continue to ask, "I know you're keeping secrets. I can tell." Relentlessly, they harp, push and compel. With accusing fingers pointed, they attack but I turn and walk away, never looking back Though none of their business, they're dying to learn the secrets I know, and keep denying. I'll never give away confidences I've been told. It's a burden that I bear, a responsibility I hold. Gossips try to discover what I keep concealed, but disclosures made to me will not be revealed. Protecting a secret is a promise that once made must be guarded or risk a friend being betrayed. I have my own secrets that shouldn’t be disclosed. It's better they stay buried and never be exposed. Secrets live in the shadowed corners of my mind, in dark depths they swim, where no one can find. What's been entrusted to me, I've vowed to keep. I'm a prisoner of silence, causing no one to weep. November 2, 2021 "S" Contest Hosted by Constance La France

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