Secrets

It's in sharing your most shameful secrets
that you become
an outcast, a hero, a savior.

Since men are one,
there exists not a human behavior
that isn't known,

no knowledge that doesn't precede you,
no wish your own.

To admit to yourself bestows freedom;
to confess calls down

legitimation of historical content:
you become as one

and, consciously so, with existence
for the time you write.

It's with love that you send off the children
you bring to light.