I watched your face
A thousand ways you’d hide
In front of me
Fingers running lightly over your mouth
Lest the words escape
Dammed and damned
A shrug – the answer composed
Of a book of words unsaid
“I don’t know.”
But you did know
Maybe
Your secrets are your own
I didn’t pry
Your private thoughts remained
Within the cage
Built over times unknown to me
And yet
The light came through the gaps
And glimpses caught
Of unrelenting pain
Did it relent finally
Did it ease at last
I’m sure I don’t know
And yet I hope
That you are out there with your
Happiness unbound
Sharing all the words you
Kept from me with
Someone safe for you
Steady for you
Someone you could
Be in revelation
The best we were for
Each other were
As friends
And the times we
Held each other in a
More intimate embrace
Less intimate
More insulated
We stood for a time
On and off
Back to back
In a world which would pry
Secrets from us
If we dropped our guard
And so we
Did not drop it
Completely
Not with each other
Not with each other
Not with the world
Then
Mine have all escaped now
Running havoc
If you see them
Let them be
They are as free as me
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