Confessions

~for the "Confessionalist's Contest"

 

 

you think you know me so very well

there are no secrets for me to tell

but my dear you don't really know

the girl I was so long ago...

there are some things and we'll both blush

I'll tell them once and then hush-hush!

Listen carefully and you will see

that after all, you don't know me:

when I was a child I stole some candy

didn't get caught so "upped the ante"

I've been to jail about six times

I've had quite a few shady pastimes

It wasn't a boy who gave my first kiss

tell me, dear, did you know this?

I was once tempted by a married man

but an adulterous affair? Not a good plan

My "first time" wasn't by choice

never thought I'd give that a voice

I ran away to another state

had a stranger for a bedmate

I've flashed a crowd just for fun

and lay naked in the sun

there's much more that I could say

but I'll wait another day

So, my dear, is it true?

Am I the girl you thought you knew?

Author's Note

~some of these "confessions" are true...most are not.

Reviews

[THERISA]

Interesting, how well do we know the person that we have commited our heart and lives to? What secret are being hidden from the light of truth? How much are we lying to ourselves about a past that we want to forget and hide in the deepest corner of our soul? These are some of the questions, that we are forced to review while reading this poem. There are no easy answers to these soul searching questions. Thank you for sharing this poem with us.

Therisa

[alyssa]

everyone has a side that noone knows!!! love it!! once again!!

[Debra Stevens Edwards (..]

It sounds as if you wrote about my life in this one. LOL. Well done and expressed Beautifully.
Hugs Debby

[waywithwords]

Carrie my friend this is just original my friend. Beautifully written with great imagery and so very revealing something in all of us. smiles. I loved it . HUGSxxxxAnne

[S.E. Conway]

i love this piece. it shows true knowledge of not only who you are, who you can be, but who people think they know. i have no idea if that statement made sense like i thought it might...but anywho... it is wonderful to read your lovely writtings!! and it is always so colorful too ^.^

love
S.E.

[Yvonne Heidt]

Carrie! I loved this - confessions with a beautiful flow and rhyme!

EXCELLENT job.

[Twisted Words (Tom)]

I really enjoyed this. There are multiple facets to see in all of us; some more than others.
So I'm wondering which are true... tempted and flasher!

[Damian Alan Gray]

It is enough that our individual pasts haunt us, like noisy ghosts. These hauntings sometimes become so loud that we absolutely must share them with the people we love. Therein lay the trick. It's a matter of trust that the other person won't flee from the ghost sounds, when they find out just how corrupted our haunted houses have become.
Great write, Carrie, and very insightful.

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Hey we all have thing in our past we've done that are some what questionable, thats what makes us human... I am curious though to which are real and those that aren't... the poem though flowed very nicely and was fun to read.

[Imperfection]

Interesting poem.
Although I don't have too much to hide, I don't think I could be so frank with anyone. We're looking for acceptance all the time...
That's why some secrets remain secrets forever.

Excellent write. I enjoyed it very much.

[Forest Green]

Nice work...very well rhymed and metered...I believed them all...;)

So what's a fellow to do now?

Excellent poem!

Daniel