Hidden Truths

Secrets are truths too frightening to share
Held close and hidden from view
and though they have no more
substance than air
The weight of their burden will bury
your dreams
and become much too heavy to bear

And what of the secrets too private
to speak
for fear of what others may say
What happens inside us when life
brings such change
Our worries and fears we must rearrange
We find ourselves saddened
by all the time wasted
Yet hopeful for each coming day

This isn't the life she signed up for
Never hoped that she'd someday
be free
But now the truth has been spoken
Though this outcome was never the goal
She finds herself feeling less broken
A lightness begins in her soul