Keep It Close

Try to keep this
close to your heart.
For if they find out,
it'll rip you apart.
With every step
you take, it begins
to thrive. Are you
really alive? The
air in your lungs
will make you
choke as the
story unfolds.

Days go by as
you live this lie.
Your secrets
fall apart, they fall
through the cracks,
and time starts
to slip away.
You try to keep
the whispers at bay.

"The secret's in
the telling," the saying
goes, but what will
you do when
everybody knows?