Untitled #10

Remember to keep secrets from yourself

Tie them into knots.

Swallow them

Grab them in the palm of your hand

so tightly that they print themselves

deep into the lines of

your palms.

Until you cannot distinguish

what was done to you

and

what you were born

with.

Until it creeps into your

voice and

until your song is

laden with it,

so entwined you cannot

pull apart the threads of

yourself

and the secrets

you try to keep

from

yourself.