secrets

Twenty years I spent my life living in a home

Oblivious to the secrets that roamed.

Through the hallways and contained in the walls

Held the secrets my family could not speak on their own.

Twenty years I lived my life in home 

That felt more like a prison 

Instead of a safe haven.

The laughs were forced but the tears were real.

I felt more comfortable in silence than in noise.

Because I knew words weren't being thrown 

To slice and dice at the ones I loved.

Twenty years I survived in my home.

On the outside all is perfect 

But cross our threshold and feel the secrets.

Pressing into your ears like a single cricket in the night.

Faintly audible and not in your line of vision, yet you hear its silent song.

Strumming its legs in a rhythm only him and god knows.

Thats how the secrets roam in the house I lived in since I was twenty years old.