Secrets We Keep

Secrets we keep under lock and skin

Truth wrapped tight so it won't get in

Every smile practiced, every word weighed

We learn what to show, what's better delayed

Secrets we keep like a second name

Love turns quiet when it carries blame

I hear your breath when the lights go low

All the things we'll never say out loud, I know

We promise silence like it's grace

Draw neat lines around our pain

If anyone knew what lives inside

Would we still be standing side by side

Secrets we keep don't disappear

They echo loud when the coast is clear

They press their weight on the midnight air

Asking if honesty would scare us there

I don't need perfect, I need real

I need to know what you actually feel

If love is built on what we hide

Tell me who we are when the doors open wide

Secrets we keep, I'm tired of the hold

Of half-told stories and hearts on hold

I won't weaponize your truth or mine

I just want the dark to see the light

If we fall, let it be honest ground

No more whispers, no coded sound

I'd rather risk the break than pretend

That silence will save us in the end

Secrets we keep can also choose

To loosen grip, to finally move

If you're brave, I'll be brave too

Tell me everything you never knew how to

Secrets we keep don't have to stay

Not when love is strong enough to say

I see you fully, flaws and deep

You don't have to drown in secrets you keep