SECRETS IN PAIRS
It seems as though
My whispers have echoes
Since everyone knows
Everything I ever said to anyone in confidence
Admittedly this is of little consequence
What does he know?
Your outrage rings hollow
In retrospect or did you mean
I'll never do the awful things they did to me
Yes unless I get the opportunity
This was before I was aware
You keep your secrets in pairs
This was before I cared
You keep your secrets in pairs
It's how you buy intimacy
You barter with your hidden horde
Of others' fragile admissions as currency
You're rolling in transmuted former loyalties
This was before I learned
You keep your secrets in pairs
This was before I'd heard
You keep my secrets in pairs
It comes and goes
The methods are borrowed
You can dispense with pleasantries
Don't worry all your confessions are safe with me
Clearly I am inured to asymmetry
Somewhere in there I learned
You keep my secrets in pairs
Somewhere in there you'd dared
To keep my secrets in pairs
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