They are locked away
with keys that are lost.
They can change our lives
in only mere seconds.
Once out in the world
they are devoured
and spread around
like the plague.
You watch as your perfect reputation
drips, dripping down the drain.
Your friends, not knowing the damage they are causing,
laugh and spread it to another person.
Everyone knows.
You hope it will go away.
End like a dream,
but you are living in a nightmare.
Night after night
you wake up and remember the reality
and smash your face into your pillow
wanting everything to go away in the wind.
Dragging your feet to school
eyes drawn to the floor
ignoring the passerby's glances.
You just want to disappear.
Then to your horror,
the one person in the whole world,
who you don't want them to know it
comes up to you.
Their brows are knitted together
confusion clouds their head.
Your face is growing a shade redder
and they say to you with such innocence.
"Is it true?"
Tears threaten to spill onto your cheeks,
but you just turn and run.
Running away from them.
Running away from your friends.
Running away from your secret.
Don't tell the secret.
Because words can destroy,
a person's image.
And it might be your's next.
"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." ― Benjamin Franklin
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Shadows Into Light
PoetryA collection of my poems which are a mix between sad and depressing to hopeful and bright, but all speak the truth. A poetry collection since 2015. ------ ✯ = featured on a poetry podcast, link available on poem
