PostSecrets

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I found your secrets

Written in your scrawled hand

On a creased piece of paper

In the cushions of your couch

 

I was in your room

Looking for drugs

And I found

So much more.

 

A letter from your dad.

One from your siblings.

A college rejection letter.

A bank notice.

Your disciplinary probation contract.

 

And your secrets.

All folded

And creased

And shoved somewhere

 

Do words no longer matter?

To you.

Words and letters and sentences

Printed on paper

 

What do you think?

When you read them.

Your bookshelves were full

Of books you’ve read

 

But what about those?

Books on your shelves.

Do you still feel the tingle?

Of meaningful, powerful words.

 

Half the letters were filled.

With love;

You say you don’t feel

Anymore.

 

The other half?

Rejection and hurt;

You absorb

Ten fold.

 

I’ve told you forever

How everything wonderful

You can be

And are

 

But yet there are your secrets

Written out

All graphite and blue lines

For all the world to feel

 

I took them.

In my back pocket of my skinny jeans.

When I got home I reread them.

Over and over

Pulling out the pain

 

And myself.

Now?

They’re in my box;

A prized possession.

 

Like a rusty bullet from you yard.

Beautiful in their

Tarnished

Dirtied

Feeling.

 

Where have your emotions gone?

Reviews

[Mariah]

i have all the post secret books. :)
i love them.
good write. !