Secret Lives

Secret Lives
Linger in the shadows
Of an otherwise sunny day
Staining the truth
With uncertainty
From the inside out.

Only partially living in the now
Concealing the lie(s)
With sugar coated smiles
And carefully catalogued containers
Of what was said
And what is heavily guarded and undisclosed.

Justifications and rationale
Rule the substantiation
Of false trust
In the name of protection for all
Like a cadaver sheet
Shielding any real emotional intimacy.

Summer white linen
Turns to blood
Inside the prison
Of “what have you done”
Preoccupying the lonely chambers
Of the heart.
Where all the separated-self-lives are gathered
For the Big reveal.