No More Secrets
Loneliness is a place
Without secrets.
The yearnings of the heart
Revealed and speak loudly.
What is loneliness
but a heart’s wish
to have someone
who can help us
carry our difficulty.
What is loneliness’ message
but the knowing
buried deep in your bones
that some heartbreaks
are meant to be carried only
by two hands of one body, alone.
Like the hands of the saint
that went out for a prayer
and, so it is told, was so still
That a bird landed on his
open praying palms.
Now that she found