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Along Life’s Way
My Secrets
about Secrets
© 2018 Lois E. Wilson
I’ve lived long enough to have made a few observations about “secrets.”
I wrote the poem “Betrayal” in 1967. Since then I’ve added the ten
listed below it.
BETRAYAL
You said that daisies do not tell.
So trustingly I spoke my secret.
Now all across the meadow
The whispered phrases echo.
If only I could quell
The haunting verbal swell.
Or better, if I could rescind
Those words blown to the wind.
It does not matter how sincere the regret—
No remedy can dent the tongue's torment.
1. Whenever you’ve asked a person,
“Can you keep a secret?” Has anyone ever answered “No”?
2. If someone is about to share a secret
or rumor with you and you do not want the burden—shake your head “no”
and say, “TMI, too much information.”
3. When you trade secrets with another,
you’re probably not getting the better deal.
4. The secrets that pull a relationship
closer together are just as likely to split it apart.
5. If a friend wants to share a “dirty,
little secret,” usually it is dirty, but seldom little.
6. Very few people who lead secret lives
are F.B.I. agents or spies.
7. If you tell just one person a secret,
it’s not a secret any more.
8. Those who know your secrets hold much
power over you.
9. If you are told, “You can’t keep
secrets,” it’s not an order to divulge all the secrets you hold. It is
an accusation that you wrongly already have done so.
10. If you must deal with secrets, be prudent and protective.
Conclusion: It is always best to keep all your secrets to yourself;
then if they get out, you immediately know whom to blame.
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