Some are dark. Untellable.
Practically unbelievable.
But telling
Isn’t an option
If you tell
a secret
About someone you don’t really know,
Other people might
listen
But decide you’re
Making it up. Even if you
Happen to know for a fact
it’s true.
If you tell a secret
About a friend, other people
want to hear
All of it, prologue
to epilogue. But then they
think
You’re totally messed
up for telling it
in the first place. They
think
They can’t trust you
And hey, they probably
can’t.
Once a nark,
always a nark, you
know?
Credits: Identical by Ellen Hopkins
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