Secrets

Hard to keep
Easy to have
No one’s supposed to know

Like the quiet of the night
You can barely hear
As the whispers of your “friends”
Tell your secrets to your many peers

1,2,3,4
The number of people
Who now know
Growing as the day goes on

Your tiny little secret
Is now a big loud noise
A noise that spreads
Like gasoline to a fire

It occupies the lunchroom, the classrooms, and the phone screens
You can hear
As people whisper
Your secret to each other

Your tiny little secret
Is
Now
One
Big lie

You only told one
But she told two
And now three know
Everyone knows

You wish

That you would have kept
Your tiny little secret
To yourself

Secrets
Hard to keep
Easy to have
No one’s supposed to know.