Friday, April 17, 2009

I Have A Secret...

...and it feels very big. No, you don't know it, but I would wake with it every morning on my lips and carry it in my heart all day, like a weapon. I could feel it, sharp and effective , but perhaps too frightening to ever be used.

So I wrote it down on a piece of paper, folded it up, and hid it away where you won't find it-- secret and safe-- and then slept for the first night in many without it trying to cut its way out.

3 comments:

ann marie said...

I once wrote a paper on the psychology of secrets. The seduction is in the unknown.

David said...

It took a whole research paper to figure that out?

ann marie said...

no . . . it took a whole paper to explian why