Living With Something

I've heard --
     -- everyone lives with a secret
Living with something ain't that strange
 believe me in the depths of mind --
  --there's always something lurking
something you wish to shy away from
 but it does not leave you
'coz the secret's you
  your identity is in the secret
  your mystique is the secret
  you take it or leave it
   that's for you to decide
     and other's to keep away from
     after all how many people can survive
    with their secret's exposed
     to be the gist of all talks--
      -- talks that are ab't you
       ab't your secret
        still there are people
        who are so selfish --
        just thinking they are so open
       ask them to come out just once--
         with their own secret
          and they'll run as if..
          ...they'd seen a scurried rat
           that rat they are themselves



Dedicated to all those people who feel it a sense of pride to poke into other's lives.Wrote it in Jan 1999