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Secret In the Closet

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I wrote this poem on Sunday, June 15, 2002...a month and a half before I came out.

Something that I have realized.
Something that can't be cast aside.
It's a part of me; has been.
It will probably stay for a lifetime.
Shut in the "Forbidden Closet";.
Who knows when or if it will ever come out?

Some facts are well-known public knowledge.
Others are kept as secret as CIA files.
Unwanted discovery always looms slightly.
Going through hidden trials.
May no one know until the proper time.
If that time ever comes.

Secret in the closet.
Kept there night and day.
May you not come out yet.
I don't know quite what to say.
Very few know these contents.
Here may it stay.

If only it were accepted.
If only people didn't care so much.
But hate and deviousness are the ways of immorality.
So the secret hides away.
It binds itself in its own darkness.
If only people accepted it.

Talked to a part of my mind the other day.
I like to call him Sid.
He said, "Andy buddy, how long you plan to keep that hid?"
I said "Until the time it is revealed, or maybe never."
It has stayed there for years now.
Perhaps it will be a day, month, year, decade, or eternity longer.