Bricks and Mortar
Mother taught me that
“secrets don’t make friends,”
which, of course,
just sounded silly.
You know who a friend is
when you can trust them
with your secrets.
Secrets are the mortar
between the bricks
we stack together,
building a safe place
for the two of us to be.
Keeping secrets from your friends
is detrimental.
At first, it doesn’t seem so bad.
You stack the bricks more carefully
now that you aren’t adding mortar,
and they stay for the first row.
Maybe even the second.
But your friend notices
that something is wrong.
Continuing to keep the secret,
makes them examine the bricks you laid
closer than the others,
looking for what is different.
First they look,
then they poke and prod,
and then the bricks start to tumble.
What was once built together
turns to ruins.
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